Front Range

Light wind from the northwest, no snow transport noted.

Below treeline the height of the snowpack remains 50-60 cm and poorly consolidated. Near and above treeline, the snowpack remains highly variable, but on eastern aspects where wind loading has occurred, the height of the snowpack appears to consistently be around one meter. In these areas, the upper portion of the snowpack consists of a wind slab sitting on near-surface facets on top of a pencil-hard wind crust. Below the wind slab, there is a persistent slab of four-finger hard rounds going to facets sitting on top of a one-finger hard layer of cohesive facets. The interface between these two layers is around 30 cm from the surface and appears to be the primary layer of concern, as an Extended Column Test resulted in ECTP7 at this location. A Propagation Saw Test on this layer, however, resulted in 90/100 arrest.