Front Range

Snowpack

Tim Brown · May 19, 2011 · Front Range

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Weather

skies obscured by snow (1-2 cm/hr) winds from the north ~ 15mph air temps slightly below freezing

Snowpack

6-8" new snow fairly well bonded to moist snow and some weak crusts up to 4" thick, extensive collapsing (50'+ radius) on low angle south aspects, ski cuts on steep north aspects produced easy but slow moving sluffs and some small (30'x30') and isolated soft slabs in the storm snow