Sawatch

Avalanche

John Mackinnon · Mar 25, 2017 · Sawatch

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Weather

Increasing high thin clouds throughout the day, light westerly winds, and above freezing temperatures.

Snowpack

Solid re-freeze last night in the areas we visited. Found some deeper drifts of recent storm snow on South aspects near TL. Some of the drifts were 30-35 cm but appeared to be well bonded with the underlying crusts.We observed the snow surface become wet in the PM on SE and then W aspects but ski penetration never exceeded a few cms. Great ski quality all day on slopes above 11K.

Avalanche

We did not observe any avalanche activity.