Aspen

Snowpack

Brian McCall · Dec 5, 2010 · Aspen

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Weather

Warm temps, calm to light west winds. Occasional snow showers, mostly S-1 with graupel falling. Cloud base lowering throughout the day.

Snowpack

Mild temps of the last couple days have settled and strengthened the snowpack in this area. Rounded grains have formed in the mid pack on E and NE facing terrain. Lower snowpack on these aspects still contains 2mm facets. No significant results in numerous tests on those facets today. With the mild temps, southerly aspects below treeline forming moist snow in the upper 10 cm of the snowpack.