Front Range

Snowpack

Mike Block · Jan 20, 2012 · Front Range

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Weather

blowing, snowing heavy

Snowpack

glades, below tree line: 6" heavy new soft slab on top of 2.5' of TG. small cracks around skis while breaking trail, lots and lots of collapsing. At tree line, SE facing slope, 25 degrees, 4" storm snow and 6" Monday snow with a thin sun crust layer in between on top of a hard slick sun crust. NO bonding of this weeks snow to the sun crust....when cutting the weeks snow with a saw, the block would just slide off the hard crust the moment the cut was complete. Scary. Retreated.