Steamboat & Flat Tops

Snowpack

Brian Lazar ยท Jan 5, 2015

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Weather

warm, light rain, light to moderate wind. Variable wind direction. It rained from 7800 to 10800 feet, despite below freezing temps. Rain started around 10am and was still going at sundown.

Snowpack

Avg Hs of about 125 cm. the early Nov rain crust is about 70cm down, with 2 cm of facets above and below the crust. The early Dec. rain crust looks to be completely eroded and now is 5cm thick of 2mm facets, 4F facet layer. The bottom 20-30cm of the snowpack is and 1F+. Then another 20cm 4F slab. Above that is Nov rain crust with facets above and below. Then 30cm 4F slab, then 5cm of 4F facets. Then another soft 4F slab, with recent F storm snow (20cm) all capped by 1cm thick rain crust.