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Observation Date
12/2/2012
Observer Name
brandondodge
Region
Salt Lake
Location Name or Route
Pioneer Ridge
Weather
Sky
Overcast
Precipitation
Light Snowfall
Wind Direction
Southwest
Wind Speed
Strong
Snow Characteristics
New Snow Density
High
Snow Surface Conditions
Dense Loose
Snow Characteristics Comments
Grauple blowing around
Red Flags
Red Flags
Wind Loading
Avalanche Problem #1
Trend
Decreasing Danger
Problem #1 Comments
Was not able to make CT or ECT propagate or fail. Was able to identify failure plane just above the grauple layer, but Q3.
Faceted grauple seems to be starting to bond, as I was able to root out a few "grauple facet chains"