Vail & Summit County

Snowpack

Bill H · Feb 27, 2015 · Vail & Summit County

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Weather

Clear/sun in am; high clouds moving in later w/ W-SW wind increasing from calm to light between 10:00 and 13:30.

Snowpack

Cohesive soft slab of 10-18 in. setting up on the older hard crusts that are present on E facing terrain. Lots of skier traffic out there on all aspects N and E. New snow from overnight and last few days pretty quiet; only saw small pockets (<5m radius) cracking and popping from skiers on steeper terrain features including convex rolls, rock pillows, and gullies around/between cliff bands. If they then ran at all, it was mostly as slow moving sluffs for short distances downhill.