Manto nevoso

Sweeney area

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Quick report

We had a fully overcast sky with small amounts of snow fall. A light western wind persistent all afternoon but didn't see any evidence of transport happening. We did find a few old healing wind slabs on the tops of rises mostly near the sw edge, not what I was expecting. Snow, what there was seemed stable but you could feel the november raincrust under foot.

Weather

Air Temp
27
Cloud Cover
overcast
Wind Loading
light
Rain Elevation
About 5k
Recent Snowfall
1 to 2

Snowpack

We dug a pit at 7.6k in a western aspect, tho pretty much on the top of a rise. We found three distinct layers of faceting snow separated buy two rain/freeze thaw crust. We got an ECTN 3 at 27cm between the faceting surface snow and the November rain crust. And an ECT 15 at 13 cm at the transition between the October facet layer and a melt freeze crust below it. Skiing was heavy and slow, not very enjoyable but still a fun time out in the mountains.