Steamboat & Flat Tops

Snowpack

Mike Cooperstein, Jason Konigsberg · Dec 10, 2017 · Steamboat & Flat Tops

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Weather

Beautiful clear day. Light wind. No snow.

Snowpack

On north and northwest-facing slopes the snowpack has very poor structure with multiple faceted layers sandwiched between melt-freeze crusts and well pronounced depth hoar at the ground; however, the slab is eroding enough to to make it hard to trigger avalanches.