Snowpack

Horse Peak @ Frog Lake @ Donner Summit

Mike N and Adam LCentral Sierra Nevada
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Quick report

Not much. Calm day locally without much wind or signs of instability. See test results. No local instability observed in touring. See snowpack test for ECT results from 8280’ (about 120 ft short of the horse peak summit)

Weather

Air Temp
25
Cloud Cover
few

Mostly clear sunny day with a small bit of ridge top winds in the morning isolated to higher peaks (like top of frog lake cliff) but calm by 9a.

Snowpack

20 cm of soft new snow from Jan 3rd (we think) over crust and harder snowpack underneath that