Observation Date
11/10/2012
Observer Name
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Region
Salt Lake
Location Name or Route
Solitude
Weather
Sky
Overcast
Precipitation
Moderate Snowfall
Wind Direction
Northwest
Wind Speed
Light
Weather Comments
Bands of heavy lake effect early on, Sun peaking through and decreasing snow showers in the afternoon.
Snow Characteristics
New Snow Depth
20"
New Snow Density
Medium
Snow Surface Conditions
Powder
Melt-Freeze Crust
Damp
Snow Characteristics Comments
Pit at 9500ft, NE facing revealed about 25 inches total snowpack. Bottom 4 inches was a damp melt-freeze crust, old snow from the previous storm. Next was a layer of large diameter grauple, which probably fell with the cold front passage on Friday. Capping the grauple was 18 to 20 inches of new right side up snow, going from about 4 finger at the bottom to cold smoke in the top 6 to 8 inches.
Comments
Only real layering in the pit was the grouple layer seperating the old melt-freeze crust from the new storm snow. No clean shear observed in the layering.
