Front Range

Snowpack

Ryan Zarter · Mar 3, 2018 · Vail & Summit County

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Weather

Warm and sunny day. Breezy at ridgtop, but not bad once you dropped down a bit.

Snowpack

On E aspects BTL mostly facets and in many places unsupportable. Larger clearings in forest and areas where aspect trended SE had MFcr on surface. NTL snowpack on E-SE apsects consisted of areas of hard wind slab, some areas with MFcr on surface, and some areas of FCsf. See attached snow pit profiles for details of snowpack structure on N aspect in the Sisters.