Cement Creek Snow Coverage

Location: Cement Creek Area
Date of Observation: 12/18/2015
Name: Evan Ross

Subject: Cement Creek Snow Coverage
Aspect:
Elevation: 9000,-12,000 along road

Avalanches: Non observed.
Weather: Partly Cloudy becoming overcast in the afternoon. Calm wind.
Snowpack: BTL: Very little snow. About 30cm HS on average. 2″ settled storm snow over facets or crusts.

NTL: Looked like the most continues snow coverage and deepest HS. If persistent slab structure is still intact, this looked like the most likely elevation to find that avalanche problem.

ATL: Snow coverage is mostly confined to gullies and wind loaded areas. Looked very “continental” with generally very little snow coverage.

Phone book style wind slab resting over facets with natural crack running through convexity. HS about 50cm in deepest part of the wind loaded feature. South aspect at 12,000ft

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