Front Range
SnowpackDominic Rickicki · Apr 24, 2022 · Front Range
Weather
Scattered clouds in AM with some warming happening NTL/BTL. Overcast by 1:30pm with snow begining to fall lightly.
Snowpack
BTL about 3-7 inches new depending on how the terrain was loaded. Lots of mixed scoured slopes and loaded slopes ATL. Elevator Shaft was scoured below the dogleg. But above was up to waist deep. Extended hand shears provided non-planar hard results through most of the run. At ridgetop there was a 3 inch soft windslab that was not propogating easily. While skiing down the second skier would break off slabs between their skis and the tracks in front of them mostly creating a sloughing hazard more than a burial hazard. This problem went away about 40 feet below ridgetop.