Quick report
- Cracking
- specific
A lot of very soft snow overlying weak snow. Recent storm snow has formed a slab in some areas and is resting atop weak layers that were buried earlier this month and in early December. This slab is most prevalent in wind-affected terrain. The most problematic layers continue to prove to be facets/crusts, and buried surface hoar from earlier this month. 2-3 feet of low-density snow from this week. Numerous shooting cracks for snowmobilers on steep test slopes.
Weather
- Cloud Cover
- overcast
- Wind Loading
- moderate
- Recent Snowfall
- 60-90 HST
- Snow Avail For Transport
- large amounts
Very cold day in the mountains. Snowing steadily (S1) for most of the day. Temperatures were dropping throughout the day. NW winds made for very cold wind chill values.