Snowpack

Thanksgiving Bowl

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Quick report

Cracking
isolated
Collapsing
isolated

Instability at 32 cm at depth hoar layer Buried depth hoar layer that provided weak stability test results

Weather

Air Temp
42.8
Cloud Cover
few
Wind Loading
moderate

Snowpack

Hard melt-freeze crust buried at 7 cm sandwiched between faceted layers with large snow crystals. Past storms gave us some rounding snow beneath some faceting rounds that came in the second storm.