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Observation: Alta Periphery

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Quick report

No real red flags today, seems to me there are only a few booby traps on high shady north that were already holding preexisting faceted snow plus add a wind slab on top. Rocks and stumps were the main hazard today. Still pretty thin out there.

Photos: snow pit on high shady north with a few inches of faceted snow underlying the new snow, cracking in wind affected terrain, meadow skippin worked alright today. Sorry about the photo quality, a little blurry

Moderate on the high north with depth hoar underlying the new snow, low everywhere else.

Snowpack

I was seeing about a foot of new snow, which was slightly wind affected and upside down in wind exposed terrain, right side up everywhere else. The new snow was getting damp on the south facing aspects such as Dry Fork in the afternoon.