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Observation: Hogum

Observation Date
3/25/2013
Observer Name
Kikkert
Region
Salt Lake
Location Name or Route
Hogum Fork/Coalpit
Weather
Sky
Scattered
Precipitation
Light Snowfall
Wind Direction
West
Wind Speed
Light
Weather Comments
Clear and cold in the early morning, then high clouds melts temps in check until late morning when we began to exit. Some very light flurries during the periods of high clouds. Only very light wind from the west on the top of North Thunder Mountain.
Snow Characteristics
Snow Surface Conditions
Powder
Snow Characteristics Comments

Snow still nice on most all aspects in the morning, with only a light and spotty zipper crust on SE facing. Sun began to bake the east facing aspects around 9 am; however, high clouds then rolled in and prevented east facing in Hogum from going off until at least 11 am when we began our decent. North facing stayed cold all the way down to around 6,500'.

Red Flags
Red Flags Comments
Pretty quite. Like described above, wet activity kept at bay in the morning by clouds. Much less wind slab development than I had expected, and the few lingering drifts noted had settled out.
Comments

Photo of a small soft slab below the Pfieferhorn (in the shade) that likely came out mid storm, maybe Friday night. Guess would be that it ran on graupel given its location below the cliffs. Note: tried to do all this from the phone and the photos seem to be having problems, but I think it finally made it on there.