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Observation Date
1/12/2013
Observer Name
mark white
Region
Salt Lake
Location Name or Route
Grandeur Peak, SLC Foothills
Weather
Sky
Broken
Precipitation
Light Snowfall
Wind Direction
West
Wind Speed
Calm
Weather Comments
Socked in and cloudy in the morning, Clearing with blue skies in the afternoon.
Snow Characteristics
New Snow Depth
2.5'
New Snow Density
Low
Snow Surface Conditions
Powder
Snow Characteristics Comments
Light density cold smoke, getting alot more face shots in the foothills than in the upper cottonwoods yesterday.
Comments

Kinda rare to get to ski in my backyard, I live right under Grandeur Peak, put my skies on at the house and started walking up the hill. Trail breaking was a bit of a chore about waist deep in most areas traveled but well worth the quality skiing. A little tougher on the dogs. Pics , depth of snow while breaking trail, snow pit with 32 inches of new well bonded to the old surface.

cornice drop from the ridge into Parleys only initiated shallow sluffing, not packing a punch or running very far.

Did note a soft slab or a large sluff on a NW facing sub peak of Grandeur, to far away to see if there was a crown, but there was a obvious debris feild. Pics new snow activity, the sub peak I saw it on.

Great day for skiing lower elevation terrain with the dogs, LCC UDOT wizard Matt Mckee must have though the same thing, saw him out with his dogs enjoying the low elevation bounty.