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Avalanche

AIARE 2 PPAS · Feb 22, 2020 · Sawatch

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Weather

Mostly cloudy with decreasing clouds Warming over the course of the day with high temps near 40degF Winds consistently light all day WSW NO Precipitation NO Blowing snow 10850ft-11740 on E and W slopes

Snowpack

Persistent grain types found down 80-90cm but generally unreactive to snow pit tests. CTH Q1 SP down 85cm, DTH SP down 90cm - ECTN, ECTX, PST End 90/100 Fooses - E aspect, 11,480ft. New snow near surface was settling into 4F slab (first 35cm), had clean but non-propagating results in tests. A mixture of buried surface facets and slabs make up the snowpack, however, most of the snowpack seems to be going through a rounding regime. FC interfaces still potentially problematic, but unreactive in our terrain today. Westerly faces below TL had wetted snow on the surface around 1500.

Avalanche

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