Front Range

Snowpack

Brian Lazar · Mar 3, 2014 · Front Range

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Weather

mostly calm near and BTL. Overcast, warm, with light snow on and off through the morning. Only accumulated 1-2 inches by 12:30.

Snowpack

NW aspects all elevations: 10" of HST with grauple visible on and near the surface. Avg HS around 175 BTL, closer to 180-200cm near and ATL. Stout 1F mid pack slabs. First PWL is 75cm down, and consists o f small round facets non-reactive in tests. Bottom 30-40cm is rounding and sintering depth hoar capped with P hard slabs. Could not get any results in snowpack test, but failure to depth hoar remain unlikely to possible on steep slopes. Storm instabilities are pretty much done. Just DPS problem near and ATL on east facign slopes. Might be isolated wind slabs on east facing loaded pockets ATL, bt did not get there today. Not an issue on W aspects ATL.