Snowpack

Observation: Park City Ridgeline

Nick BurrSalt Lake
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Heavy Snowfall, Wind Loading

Skied PC ridgeline today, took a few laps. Storm came in around 4:30 starting as light graupel, transitioning to heavier graupel, strong winds, and dumping snow as I exited (around 7pm?), which was after the sunset. About 2 inches of snow fell on the skintrack/road and the snow was actually cold, which was awesome.

When driving down canyon the rain snow line was at Reynolds flats.

Attached a photo of a big wind drift. I think that in select locations tomorrow will be really good skiing and also a few spots will probably start avalanching, but maybe still not enough of a load. We'll see.

Biggest concern is we now will have enough snow to not see rocks.

Snowpack

Instability Comment
<p>High winds around 6-7pm on PC ridgeline </p> <p>Snowed quite hard as I was leaving. Heavy graupel -&gt; Cold Snow the transition happened from 5:30-7:30</p>