Observation: Turnagain

Location: Cornbiscuit

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Route & General Observations

Toured up to top of treeline on NW ridge of Cornbiscuit then across to the SW shoulder.

Weather & Snow Characteristics
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Weather

Warm temps in the low 30s at the trail head. Calm winds at treeline elevations but we did see some wind transport along upper ridgelines.

Snow surface

2-5 cm thick melt freeze layer on the surface up to about 2000'. It was not as thick or frozen at higher elevations so the skiing was a little better. Below 1500' the surface crust was partially frozen. We saw tons of roller balls on the surface on E, S, W aspects up to about 2500'.

Snowpack

We dug pits on a NW aspect at 1900' and on a W aspect at 2000'. The 1/10 layer of buried surface hoar was about 1.5-2' deep in both locations but we did not see propagation on that layer in our extended column tests. We also found another layer of surface hoar about 8" deep that I think was buried on 1/18. This layer did not have propagation in our tests either.

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