Location: Crested Butte Area
Date of Observation: 01/13/2017
Name: Will
Date of Observation: 01/13/2017
Name: Will
Subject: Red Lady Glades
Aspect: South East
Elevation: 9000-11000
Aspect: South East
Elevation: 9000-11000
Avalanches:
Weather: Overcast with a break in the clouds around 1400 which produced a large amount of solar, light winds and snow flurriesy
Snowpack: SNOWPACK/AVALANCHE OBS:
No Avalanche activity was seen, no signs of any instability, whoompfing or cracking. HS 223cm, boot pen 63cm, ski pen 35cm. Air temp -4*C Surface -6*C T20 -8*C. Slope angle 25* at 10,800 SE The new snows interfaces where easily found with a shovel tilt test, with little resistance and a planer surface. The Jan 1st interface as 109cm with an CT that resulted: CT22Q345cm From the surface down 120 had a hardness of F 4F 1F. See Photo:
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