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Observation: Cutler Ridge

Observation Date
12/27/2018
Observer Name
Wilson, Hardesty
Region
Ogden » Ben Lomond » Cutler Ridge
Location Name or Route
Cutler Ridge
Weather
Sky
Obscured
Precipitation
Light Snowfall
Wind Speed
Calm
Weather Comments
Powder preservation weather. Windless, temps in the teens, skies alternating between overcast and obscured.
Snow Characteristics
Snow Surface Conditions
Powder
Snow Characteristics Comments
Good early season coverage. As low as 6500' there was nearly a meter of snow, and he dribs-and-drabs approach to building a snowpack has added up to powder with body; the kind you float on without hitting the bottom. Can't speak for solar aspects, our tour kept us on the north half of the compass.
Red Flags
Red Flags Comments
No signs of instability.
Snow Profile
Aspect
North
Elevation
8,500'
Slope Angle
27°
Comments
HS - 100-150cm above 7500'. Quick pit on NNW at 8500' showed 3cm of 4-finger facets over 12cm of knife hard ice crust at the ground. No CT results on this layer. A hard shovel shear result down 40cm at the transition from 4-finger decomposing fragments to older 1-finger snow was the only other "result". Snow seems thick and quite stable.
Plenty of snow available for transport, should the winds ever pick-up...
Always some sort of "thicketeering" involved.
Today's Observed Danger Rating
Low
Tomorrows Estimated Danger Rating
Low