Manteau neigeux

Observation: Thomas Fork

Staples & TremperSalt Lake
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Quick report

Overall great coverage.

7700 feet, west aspect - 125 cm of snow (4 feet). The weakest snow was near a crust maybe 8-10 inches under the new snow.

As we approached Hobbs Peak near 9000 feet, the snow was over 2 meters deep. The weakest layer was a stripe of graupel that came from graupel rolling off the rock slabs above. It wouldn't break in extended column tests though. We simply skied some distance away from the rock slabs where no graupel had accumulated in the snowpack.

Overall the snowpack looks great. It is deep and gets harder and harder with depth.

The danger was rated LOW in all places we traveled, but it's not impossible to trigger an avalanche.

Snowpack

Dense, fast, surfy, easy-riding powder conditions all the way back to the Trailhead at 5600 feet.