Observation: Deer Valley Perimeter

Numerous snow profiles in uncompacted terrain.

99° East @ 9210' below. HS ~85cm. Supportable and frozen crust comprised the upper half of the pack; the lower half was mostly comprised of larger, more coarse loose melt freeze grains, and this is where - unsurprisingly - the liquid water pooled at this interface.

We used colored water to visualize where meltwater is likely to pool in the coming days as temperatures rise. In this snowpit on a north aspect @ 9000'. HS 100cm. (Snowpilot profile below). We observed the water pooling on a midpack crust above a layer of facets. We suspect this layer of facets is the Dry January layer and the crust was from a rain event February 24-25. Regardless, there were multiple locations within the snowpack meltwater was pooling and therefore there is a high amount of uncertainty as we move into a historically warm period for this time of the year.