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Observation: Grandfather Bowl

Toby Weed, Josh ArchibaldLogan
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Quick report

Aspect
South
Red Flags
Cracking
Elevation
2591 m
Slope Angle
25°
Red Flags Comment
<p>Minor, locallized cracking in drifted terrain.</p>

Nice smooth conditions with a couple inches of new atop stiffer wind affected snow from the weekend storm.

Snowpack

Instability Comment
<p>Wind and storm slabs formed out of the weekend storm snow, some capping SH or nsf now probably should be considered persistent slabs...</p>

Snow was a bit punchy, especially lower in the bowl where you'd sometimes sink into weak sugary snow below 4F slab from the weekend storm.   Could easily find weaker underlying snow with ski pole probing...  

Ski penetration ~10 cm, ....Boot penetration all the way ~100+cm