Vail & Summit County

Snowpack

Brent Herring · Jan 22, 2020 · Vail & Summit County

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Weather

light snow, 80% cloud cover, winds gusting to 15

Snowpack

Dug a pit about 30 feet down from the ridge NTL at 11.5k, NNE, 31 deg slope; HS 145cm: 15cm new snow overlying a 30cm 1F wind slab, atop a thin near surface facet layer, bottom of the snowpack had a 1F cohesive slab gradually weakening to basal facets at the ground. ECTP22 Q2, failed on the near surface facets 45 cm from the surface.