Observation: Summit

Location: Tender Foot

Date:

January 7, 2018 1:00pm

Observer:

Stuart Burke

Route & General Observations

Tour up lower tender foot

Weather & Snow Characteristics

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Weather

Calm, temps in the low 20s F, partly cloudy

Snow surface

20 cm of soft snow, made for good skiing

Snowpack

Dug a pit at 2220' on a SW aspect. Slope angle 20 degrees. Snow depth 80 cm, buried surface hoar 20 cm down, below that a several melt freeze crusts with facets in between. ECTN17 on the buried surface hoar.

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Buried surface hoar is ~20 cm below snow surface

Buried surface hoar

Location

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