Observation: Turnagain

Location: Sunburst

Date:

March 2, 2020 12:44

Observer:

E. Roberts / R. Van Luit Forecaster

Route & General Observations

Standard uptrack

Limited parking

Weather & Snow Characteristics

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Weather

10°F-30°F
Mostly cloudy to obscured
Calm

Snow surface

10cm-25cm new
5-6mm Buried surface hoar at the base of the new snow found at all elevations throughout tour up to 3100'

Snowpack

Sunburst
Testpit #1
We found a spot that was unlikely to be skier impacted
See image for details
Surface hoar was buried 10cm from the surface, F hardness decomposing fragments above and below.

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Testpit #1

5-6mm buried surface hoar found below new snow ↓ 10-cm in testpit#1. The BSH was surrounded above and below by Fist hard decomposing stellars.

View toward Magnum from Sunburst. The snow surface looked wind effected.

Another view toward Magnum from Sunburst.

Location

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