Quick report
New snow accumulating all day. Skiing was great today, but slopes are getting loaded on weak layers. Danger could be different tomorrow.
Weather
- Air Temp
- 24
- Cloud Cover
- overcast
- Wind Loading
- none
- Recent Snowfall
- 10
- Snow Avail For Transport
- small smounts
Light snow when started at sea level around 9 am. Snow picked up to S1 around noon and was S2 by the time we got down at 1:30. Over cast skys all day with light winds from the SE. No snow was being transported.
Snowpack
We climbed to 2000ft. The total snow depth was 250cm. We dug a pit on a NW aspect on a 28 degree slope and observed no substantial test results. We did observe two distinct layers in the top 20cm. The sunny days and cold nights earlier in the week created skims of ice layers with small surface hoar between the new snow layers. The rain event in January solidified the snow pack below 40cm, where we found 4mm ice particles down 78-79cm. There were 3 to 4 mm facets just above this layer. We also found a 3 to 4mm ice layer down 48 to 50 cm (end of year crust).