Clear sunny, roughly 0ºF at trailhead and 20ºF at 2900'. No wind.
Observation: Summit
Location: Summit Colorado Peak
Clear sunny weather, with strong inversion pattern. Overall very good skiing on supportable base with 1-3″ on Facets and surface hoar on top.
Weather
Snow surface
Surface hoar on top gradually diminishing in size up to 2900' where it disappeared.
Snowpack
3 pits at 2900' in a slightly windloaded spot, revealed 1-2" of facets on top of 1F to P hard rounds all the way to the ground. The facets layer were not well bonded to underlying rounds/windslabs and easily scraped off. No other results in stability tests. HS 90-160 cm.
3 pits at 2000' revealed a mixed bag of results with some CT's failing on basal facets, others roughly 30 cm from top (old windslab interface?), no failures around the Dec. 1 raincrust was observed. Overall moderate to high strength, low propagation propensity, moderate to poor structure at this elevation.