The new snow these past two days is extremely dense, perhaps 30 percent water, and it really has some heft to it. It's so dense that on skis you stay very close to the surface and it can be kind of fun, surfy snow. But it's only nice at high elevations above about 9,500 feet, below which, it's quite damp. The wind obviously had its way with the snow with extensive areas of wind damage at upper elevation wind exposed terrain. Even in lower elevation trees, the wind was so strong and variable that it has wind drifted tails behind most every tree. The upper elevations ridges, such as the Park City ridge line, is completely denuded of snow, which was redistributed onto the downwind, north through east facing terrain, probably in deep, hefty drifts.
