Telkwas from Houston

Visibility was poor with snow falling at a rate of 1cm an hour or less. The wind was light from the southeast. We travelled across the ridge and dropped down into the meadows where we did a snow profile. See the Snowpack section for the description. There was approximately 5 cm of new snow during the day. The upper and mid snowpack are well settled and strong, however the weak sugary facets and depth hoar continue to be a concern.

The snowpack was layered with wind crusts and melt freeze crusts in the top 50 cm. There were loose facets and depth hoar in the bottom 60 cm, and we had a compression test hard 25 result that was sudden collapse character down 100 cm on the top of this weak layer. The November rain crust was 20-30 cm thick at this location and knife hard on the ground.