Vail & Summit County

Very warm with generally light winds.

East-facing below treeline (11,150 ft)- snowpack is ~70 cm deep. The top 7 cm of the snowpack was melt forms. The weakest layer was faceted snow below a melt-freeze crust midway through the snowpack. Southeast near treeline (11,700 ft) - The snowpack is about a meter deep. In areas where the snow is surrounded by trees there is much more meltwater moving through the upper snowpack. On open slopes, the snowpack is much drier with just a very thin melt-freeze crust at the surface. In our snowpit where the depth was 105 cm, we got an ECTP20 on faceted snow beneath a hard wind-packed layer. Southeast above treeline- There is a very thin surface melt-freeze crust. The snowpack is generally weak. We dug in a shallower area and got a result of ECTP13 on a faceted layer 30 cm from the surface. The depth hoar below this layer is relatively stronger on southeast-facing slopes (up to 1F).