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Observation: Amazon Face

Observation Date
2/9/2013
Observer Name
Brodhead and Hubbard
Region
Logan
Location Name or Route
Amazon Face
Weather
Sky
Obscured
Precipitation
Light Snowfall
Weather Comments
Light, consistent snow from 9-1pm. Then picking up a bit towards the afternoon. We observed little to no wind drifting.
Snow Characteristics
Snow Characteristics Comments
HN 12 cm, HS 120 cm @ 8,727 E facing slope.
Red Flags
Red Flags
Poor Snowpack Structure
Red Flags Comments
The snowpack structure remains a concern. Pit test results @8,727 E facing: CTE - (five taps, on the storm snow, melt-freeze interface), ECTP Q1 16 on the Jan-8 rime crust/facet interface. One interesting thing we found is that, at least where we dug around, the facet layer was 1finger hardness. We haven't observed this before and found it interesting enough to report (see attached photo for an attempt to capture these grains on a 3mm grid).