Observation: Salt Lake 11/22/2010

Observer Name: 
Kikkert
Region: 
Salt Lake
Observation Date: 
11/22/2010
Location or Route: 
Cardiff - Georges
Weather
Sky: 
Overcast
Precipitation: 
Light Snowfall
Wind Direction: 
Southwest
Wind Speed: 
Moderate
Weather Comments: 

Winds mostly confined to ridgelines, although there was some strong gusts that made it into more sheltered areas. 

Snow Characteristics

New Snow Depth: 
3"
New Snow Density: 
Medium
Snow Surface Conditions: 
Powder
Snow Characteristic Comments: 

 Just a few inches falling by mid morning.

Elevation: 
10000'
Aspect: 
Northeast
Cardiff_11-22-10.jpg
snow_profile_location: 
United States
40° 36' 47.178" N, 111° 40' 4.0296" W
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Comments - Photos - Videos (group 1)

 Skied mostly lower angle stuff.  Only very limited collapsing right near the ridgeline in a thinner, rockier area.  Took a couple quick looks at snow, including the attached quick pit.  With so much snow in the past few days, it is a bit difficult to keep track of old layers, especially in areas I have not been to this year.  I could only find one crust within the snowpack, a little over a foot from the ground.  Given its depth, I believe it was one of the October crusts and not the Nov rime crust.  It was underlain by some weaker snow; however, in CTs and ECT I could not get a failure this low in the snowpack.  In fact, I could not get failure at all in an ECT.  On CTs, I could get failure at the graupel layers both above and below the dense windblown snow from Nov 20th (the visible brown layer).  

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