Snowpack

Observation: Alta Periphery

HardestySalt Lake
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Poor Snowpack Structure
Red Flags Comment
<p>"Sorta" poor structure. We have a good bed surface and a good thicket of weak layers above. Just waiting for that next slab. I mean storm.</p>

Northerly @ 9000' HS roughly 30cm. 8cm of variously developed facets above a supportable crust.

Northerly @ 10,000' HS roughly 45cm. 12-15 cm of variously developed facets above a supportable crust.

Snowpack

Recent low density storm snow rapidly faceting but not as advanced as the couple/few inches of more advanced facets (squares) over the supportable mid-pack crust. Decent turns in the square powder on the low angle grassy slopes.  Image thanks to our friends at the Hatcher Pass Avalanche Center in Alaska.  (They're seeing significant rain on snow slab avalanches today.)