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Green Slope
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Sun crust beneath the new snow was the most interesting layering. Widespread on the southerly aspects we traveled, all the way to the 10,200' ridge line.
I was very interested to get full propagation above the crust on one of the Extended Column Tests. I think the crust can play into tomorrow avalanche activity in a couple of ways. First, as a good bed surface, allowing wet loose sluffs to run far. Second, it will faciliate slab avalanches in places, or wet sluffs transitioning to slabs as the snow runs down slope.