Schneedecke

Silver Hill

Kyla Berendzen/Isabel DavisSilver Valley & Bitterroot Mountains
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Quick report

Rain/mix up to ~5700'; above freezing temps and some rain up to 6000'. Wet heavy snowpack; settling and forming runnels. Logs, stumps, and rocks becoming exposed again. Small natural wet loose slides/sluffs, roller balls and pinwheels. Signs of wet loose conditions (natural wet loose sluffs, pinwheels, roller balls) typical of warm air temps/rain and very moist, spring-like snowpack

Weather

Air Temp
0
Cloud Cover
obscured
Wind Loading
none
Rain Elevation
5700
Recent Snowfall
3
Snow Avail For Transport
none

Rain/snow mix varying by elevation; calm, foggy and low visibility. Snow has been rained out of the trees up to ~5700', and above that there is very little remaining in them.

Snowpack

Snowpack 130 cm, and becoming increasingly saturated and consolidated. Snow from recent storm cycle rapidly decomposing and getting saturated, some crusts beginning to break down and facets lower in snowpack are rounding. Some notable layers still persisting; ECTN 24 on graupel 45 cm down; more graupel 53 cm down, and surface hoar from Jan 1 and Nov 28 also still present.