Snowpack

Observation: Weber Canyon

Katz/McCartney/HoffmanUintas
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Quick report

Aspect
North
Red Flags
Collapsing, Poor Snowpack Structure
Elevation
2804 m
Slope Angle
32°
Red Flags Comment
<p>Walking through a brushy meadow near the canyon bottom, several crystalline, whispering collapses could be heard. "Shhhhh...."</p>

Weber Canyon had itself another beautiful day today. After ascending from the aforementioned meadow of collapses, signs of the past weekend's warmup on mid elevation N were present. Attached is a photo of a now frozen cinnamon roll-er ball. With increased elevation, travels proved difficult through an especially weak, trap door snowpack. A snowpit was dug in an area that contained some of the strongest snow found, but still did not have enough of a slab to produce any propagation.

The rest of Upper Weber Canyon (pitcured) remains, again, good from far...

Snowpack

In protected terrain, the windboard present in other areas of Weber Canyon was absent. In addition, the alleged rime crust that has been found near Windy Peak was absent as well.