Front Range

Snowpack

Kevin Sturmer · Mar 9, 2019 · Front Range

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Snowpack

L - Base of Haines Headwall, Rocky Mountain National Park E - 9600ft A - 105 degrees/ East S - 28 degreeslope T - Quick Test Pit - ECTP17 54cm down Q2 Resistant Planar fractured through the entire block but did not slid under its own weight. Fracture occured at new snow/old snow interface. Sliding surface 1F hard windslab packed rounds. Knife Hard melt/freeze layer identified 125cm down with no reactivity observed.