Snowpack observations from Incline Lake Peak

Location Name: 
Incline Lake Peak
Region: 
Mount Rose Area
Date and time of observation: 
Sun, 03/21/2010 - 14:05
Location Map: 
United States
39° 17' 43.62" N, 119° 56' 25.3032" W
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Observation made by: Forecaster
Snowpit Observations
More detailed information about the snowpack: 

A sometimes breakable, sometimes supportable melt-freeze crust existed on the northerly aspects up to 9400'. Below this crust soft, well-consolidated snow existed. On the exposed northerly aspects near the ridgelines a mix of wind scoured and wind packed surfaces existed on the surface. A frozen melt freeze crust existed on the southerly aspects. By 1 pm enough about 1 inch of soft corn snow existed on the southerly aspects below 9000'.

Photo: The thin melt-freeze crust on the northerly aspects.

Snowpit or crown profile photo or graph: 
Snowpack photos: 
Weather Observations
Blowing Snow: 
No
Cloud Cover: 
50% of the sky covered by clouds
Air temperature: 
Above Freezing
Wind Speed: 
Moderate
Precipitation: 
Air temperature trend: 
Warming
Wind Direction: 
Southwest
Accumulation rate: 
More detailed information about the weather: 

High thin clouds across about half the sky.