Snowpack

Hurricane Ridge- Maggies

Sam LuthyOlympics
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Quick report

Beautiful sunny December day at HR. Its nice to see the hills and trees with a dusting of white again. With the clear skies we also had calm conditions and this was allowing the sun to warm southern slopes and rock faces resulting in a few rollerballs. Minimal transport of yesterdays new snow with a few soft pillows found on ridgelines approaching 24in depth. Low angle NNE slopes that had old snow prior to this refresh provided the only skiing. Approaching 30deg the new snow was prone to sluffing.

Weather

Air Temp
25
Cloud Cover
clear
Wind Loading
light
Rain Elevation
2000
Recent Snowfall
10
Snow Avail For Transport
small smounts

Sunny, calm with temps rising from 20F to 26F throughout the day.

Snowpack

4" of new on a stout melt freeze crust. and melt forms to the ground. HS at Maggies stake was 17" with HS varying from 4" on dirt to 24in in areas of wind transport. A clear night and calm on 12/22-23 resulted in widespread 3+mm Surface Hoar in the middle elevations. Approaching 30deg the new snow was prone to sluffing.