Grand Mesa

Snowpack

Brandon Levy · Nov 23, 2018 · Grand Mesa

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Weather

Light SW winds with temps in the 20's. Skies were scattered to broken with increasing clouds from the SW

Snowpack

5-7" of new snow from yesterday's storm is cohesive enough to propagate a failure with an ECTP10 observed at the old/new interface. The old snow is fragile and weak with large facets above a faceting melt-freeze crust and mixed forms to the ground. General snow cover is sparse with many rocks and bushes poking through