Snowpack

Observation: Beaver Mountain

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Quick report

Aspect
North
Red Flags
Heavy Snowfall, Wind Loading, Cracking, Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
Elevation
2652 m
Slope Angle
13°
Red Flags Comment
<p>Lots of signs of instability... Localized cracking and collapsing </p>

We dug a quick snowpit west of the top of Harries Dream Lift at 8750' and Paige did an extended column test.... ECTP 19

Snowpack

Instability Comment
<p>And inverted (top heavy) new snow.</p>

Untracked snow was droppy and bottomless, and it was hard to get enough speed to do turns.  We stayed on the recently cat-packed stuff...