Snowpit on Angora

Location Name: 
Angora
Region: 
Echo Summit Area
Date and time of observation: 
Mon, 03/07/2016 - 10:32
Location Map: 
United States
38° 52' 9.5916" N, 120° 4' 15.9744" W
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Recent loading by new snow, wind, or rain
Observation made by: Public
Snowpit Observations
More detailed information about the snowpack: 

Humid conditions in general, heavy sticky snow improved above 7000ft.

well consildated storm snow to 47cm crust layer and dense wet snow beneath.  No density changes in storm snow except a couple inches of uncolsolidated snow on surface fromlast night.

Snowpit at 8400ft N facing, 35 degrees

CTH21 sudden collapse on the 47cm interface new and old snow

This was targetted with a PST 40/100 END

No other sign of instability save a scattered wind depositted surface slab here and there and minor sluffing of very scant surface snow that fell last night

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Weather Observations
Blowing Snow: 
Cloud Cover: 
50% of the sky covered by clouds
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