Zone: Northwest Mountains
Location: Cinnamon
Date of Observation: 11/19/2020
Name: Alan bernholtz
Subject: Cinnamon East Face
Aspect: East
Elevation: 12,000′
Avalanches: Non observed
Weather: Partly cloudy skies, moderate west winds with temps around freezing
Snowpack: A wide variety of surface conditions in addition to a variable snowpack depth was observed. We found wind deposited snow on the surface as well as some D/F grains. The surface of the snow was moist in wind protected areas. There was very little blowing snow on the ridge tops. There was some wind crusts, some sun crusts and some facetted snow that we observed on our ski up and down.
The snowpack varied from 50cm to ground. No signs of instability were observed even on 40 degree pitches.
The road up had wind drifts but was easily manageable on snowmobiles.
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