Snowpack

Observation: Porter Fork

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<p>It's clearly snowed a lot in the last few days. GOOD. Best December base in recent memory. But of course, the early season blues of the PWL loom. </p>

Snowpack

Instability Comment
<p>digging a few quick hand pits we saw a couple of mid-storm instabilities: one about a foot down (last 24 hours) and another about 2 feet down (48 hours). Clean shears, but didn't pop out with any intensity. </p> <p>We didn't dig down deep enough to get to the ground to confirm if there was the PWL at the bottom, but assume it was there. The question is: at what elevation in PoFo was there snow before Thanksgiving? we skied a lot of open, low angle terrain that has been skied pretty hard over the last week or two, and a little bit of fairly densely treed steeper (33+ degree) slopes that haven't been hit very hard. We had no whoomphs. We did not venture into any windloaded terrain, tho had the perceived E wind continued or increased, it may have gotten slabby even in lower, more typically-sheltered NE facing terrain. </p>

Once again, a little on the dense, surfy side.  Then the showers at the end of the day also had graupel.