Grand Mesa

Snowpack

Matt Huber · Jan 31, 2019 · Grand Mesa

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Weather

Temperatures were near the freezing mark throughout the trip with only a few clouds and calm winds.

Snowpack

Snowpack depth was generally 1 to 1.5 meters. Ski penetration was roughly 30 centimeters. Surface conditions were a very thin wind skin on slopes that had not received any sun. A sun crust was developing almost everywhere that was seeing direct sun. Only one test pit produced hard propagating results at a crust facet crust sandwich at 40 centimeters from the ground ECTP 28