Snowpack

Observation: Empire Pass

Bodi MarzkaSalt Lake
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Quick report

Aspect
North
Red Flags
Wind Loading, Cracking, Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
Elevation
2713 m

Persistant weak layer in full effect on North aspects due to ground layer. Wind blown snow causing soft slab with surface cracking and collapsing on all NW-E aspects above 8000 feet. Due to new snow and high winds storm slabs may be in effect throughout the next 24 hours.

Snowpack

Instability Comment
<p>Wind Drifted snow causing small soft slab on surface 2 cm in depth.</p> <p>Compression test resulted in CTM at around 35 cm between different densities of snow. Extended Column Test resulted in ECTN 25 at around 12 cm on medium sized faceted layer (Column was not fully isolated after closer inspection). </p>