Vail & Summit County

Snowpack

Breck Ski Patrol Level 1 · Jan 24, 2017 · Vail & Summit County

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Weather

12,500ft - 11, 500ft , Broken clouds mid afternoon increasing to overcast, snow started slow s-1 with a period of graupel and then increased to s2, Air temps dropping throughout the afternoon, Light wind from the W, No blowing snow observed

Snowpack

11,860, N aspect, Meadow below Logans area: HS 160, decomposing SH found 32 cm down, soft slab on top, CT results were unimpressive on SH, CTH PC we tried a PST to see if we could get it to propagate and were able to have a full cut with out propagation (PST 100/100?) We did not have any collapsing or cracking in this terrain, but were able to find the surface hoar layer in various pits/aspects We had a strong mid-pack with pencil hard and pencil + layers, that were sitting on top of basal facets that seemed to be starting to round 112cm down - no results on this layer