Aspen

Snowpack

Anonymous · Mar 16, 2016 · Aspen

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Weather

Snowed a total of 10-16 inches, varying in areas of wind affect. Day 1 - Stormy conditions, poor visibility, s1. Day 2 - Weather in am was clear and gusty and then later on got stormy with more of a sustained, strong, westerly wind. Day 3 - Clear skies and low winds, 5-10 mph max. The winds got super strong, maybe 25-50 mph winds.

Snowpack

Dug a quick hand pit around 11,400' on a NW wind loaded run. There wasn't much of a slab (1F) over F facets, 50 cm deep. We ski cut every thing we skied (N and NW), both aspects were totally unreactive. Zero signs of surface instability, even with all the new storm totals. Small wind slab beginning to form due to strong SW winds experienced on the third day.