Snowpack
View on mapMid Swan
FAC
Quick report
- Cracking
- isolated
Storm check in the Swan Range:
- ~4" New snow at upper elevations, trace at mid-elevations
- Gusty West winds was blowing snow into isolated drifts that cracked easily under foot
- Meltfreeze crust from previous week seemed omnipresent on E-S-W, less so on NW-N-NE
- Crust was 1-2 inches thick and supportable atop dry snow at upper elevations.
- Crust varied between supportable and unsupportable at mid-elevation and sat atop moist snow.
Weather
- Cloud Cover
- overcast
- Wind Loading
- light
- Recent Snowfall
- 4 inches
- Snow Avail For Transport
- small smounts
West wind gusting to moderate. Snow squalls and Graupel.
Snowpack
8000 feet, East aspect: HS =240cm, CT1 x2 down 10cm under meltfreeze crust.