Front Range

Avalanche

Mike Cooperstein · Dec 14, 2015 · Front Range

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Weather

Beautiful day. Clear skies very light wind. No clouds. Wind started to pick up around 3:15pm.

Snowpack

Small wind crust on the surface. 6 inches new and broken stellars. Solid slab composed of small rounded grains with a few melt freeze crusts. Depth hoar was harder 4f+ and starting to bond but still showed signs of striations. No results in snowpack tests.

Avalanche

Small R1-D1 Wind Slab. Appears to have released in the last day. Very steep east facing wind-loaded slope.