Observation: No Name Bowl 1/12/2012

Observer Name: 
mark white
Region: 
No Name Bowl
Park City Ridgeline
Salt Lake
Observation Date: 
01/12/2012
Location or Route: 
No Name Bowl -PC ridge line
Weather
Sky: 
Clear
Wind Direction: 
North
Wind Speed: 
Light
Weather Comments: 

Seemed like it stayed fairly cold all day. not alot of softening of on the south end of the compass, or any wet activity noted.

Snow Characteristics

Snow Surface Conditions: 
Faceted Loose
Wind Crust
Melt-Freeze Crust
Snow Characteristic Comments: 

Mostly faceted to the ground in the wind ptotected north facing.

snow_profile_location: 
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Comments - Photos - Videos (group 1)

Went to No Name to see what the snow was doing since my last visit about a week and a half ago. The hard wind slabs that were on the ridge line last visit were rotting out rapidly. I still could get a wind slab with enough structure to break out on facets. About 1" of wind skin broke out first with the collapse on a thin layer of facets under it, then a decomposing wid slab about 10" deep broke out imediately after on facets below the barely recognizable rain crust. Facets on top of the slab and underneith it as well.

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Comments - Photos - Videos (group 2)

Once off the ridge line the main bowl of No Name consisted of about 18 to 20" of mostly facets to the ground, with a rare peice of windslab mixed in. Tails of the skiis were tapping the dirt on the steeper sections of the slope, getting almost unsupportable, lower angle not so much. Still good potential for facet sluffs on steeper terrain.

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