Grand Mesa

Snowpack

Rick Smith · Feb 23, 2015 · Grand Mesa

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Weather

Overcast (100%), calm winds, lightly snowing, Air temp. -1.1c, RH 31%

Snowpack

As I walked to site I was post-holing to about 55cm in the open area. Total snow depth was 128cm, from 128-110cm we had new snow PP (F), 110-105cm MF (1F) layer, 105-75cm FC (F), 75-5cm RG (1F hard) and 5cm-ground DH (F). CT showed fail at 3 taps on upper layers (128-75cm) and no failure from 75 down (ECTX) I did a hasty pit about 2 miles north of the "County Line" location at "Skyway" at 1330 hrs. and it was snowing fairly hard by this time. I found pretty much the same thing ... 100cm total depth, 100-80 PP (F), 80-5cm RG (1F), 5-ground DH