Vail & Summit County

Snowpack

Logan Johnson · Feb 7, 2012 · Vail & Summit County

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Nice sunny day

Snowpack

Horrific snowpack conditions observed on NW, N, NE aspects. The report is spot on. Hard slab on top of garbage. Just wanted to confirm your observations and note numerous old slides from last storm cycle observed especially at lower elevations and N aspects. One was 3' crown to the ground 50' wide and ran 100'- on a 28 degree slope! no obvious trigger (cliffs, convex rollover etc..) in medium tree cover (aspen pine mix.) Oddly enough no recent activity observed in Benchmark bowl.