Vail & Summit County

Snowpack

Brent Herring · Dec 18, 2018 · Vail & Summit County

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Weather

low clouds; blue skies high. winds gusts ~20 on the ridge. 10-15 deg F.

Snowpack

Expectedly sastrugi and wind board ATL; bottomless sugar snow BTL on the north aspect above McCullough Gulch. At the transition NTL encountered a variable thickness pencil-knife hard wind deposited slab overlying unsupportable faceted snow. Moderate cracking in places. Seemed there was some potential for propagation. No pit dug.