Observation: Days Fork

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Heavy Snowfall, Poor Snowpack Structure

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<p>Although there has been a lot of new snow in the past 48 hours, we didn't see any recent avalanches, no sluffs, no cracking or collapsing. It seemed the new snow bonded well to the underlying surface and didn't produce a slab at the 8-10k level where we were. We skied 40 plus degee slopes near the bottom skiers left side of CSR and didn't produce even a little sluffing. In most places the snowpack is quite deep and the presence of the deeply buried facets was not evident without digging a full pit. But there were a few places with shallower snow and it wasn't hard to find facets with a hasty pit near these outcroppings. There was a lot of skier traffic on CSR (east-southeast aspect) today and nothing happened at all, but I noticed no one ventured out on to Days Draw or Banana Days which are more north facing. Its all about the deeply buried facets and it didn't seem like a good day for gambling when the skiing was so good on a safer slope.</p>

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