Vail & Summit County

Snowpack

Mike Floyd · Mar 14, 2021 · Vail & Summit County

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Weather

S1 at times then it would stop. Just a couple of inches of new accumulation; I was below treeline but it looked like ridgeline was moderately windy with active wind loading. Winds were mostly west or northwest but light overall where I was.

Snowpack

Rec Trip: The storm did not produce a lot of snow around Vail Pass, but it also seems to have spared us the wind (at least for now). HST was ~8" and very high quality. Dug on a west-facing slope near treeline and found no slab in 120 cm of progressively denser snow, top to bottom. Basal depth hoar, chains, and facets were laboratory-grade but some rounding was evident among the large grains that were mainly of no consequence because there is no stiff slab capping this weak snow.