Obs from Rose Knob Pk

Location Name: 
Rose Knob Peak
Region: 
Mount Rose Area
Date and time of observation: 
Mon, 01/24/2011 - 12:00
Location Map: 
United States
39° 17' 25.8072" N, 119° 57' 30.9636" W
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Red Flags: 
Obvious avalanche path
Terrain Trap
Observation made by: Forecaster
Snowpit Observations
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Slow but steady snow surface melting occurring at the upper elevations today. More freezing than melting has occurred over the past two days. At noon at the noted lat/long (S aspect at 9,400'), surface melt had occurred in the top 5 cm on the snowpack. Below the melt layer, 35 cm of knife hard ice from previous melt freeze existed. The snowpack remained very supportable on SE-S aspects between 9,700' down to 7,400' when I left the area at 1:45 pm. At 1:30 pm at 39.278743,-119.952722 (S aspect at 7,600') surface wet snow was up to 15 cm deep with a 5 cm layer of pencil+ hard ice below. Below the ice layer was approx 1 m of wet snow down to ground level per ski pole probing. Ski and boot pen in this entire area never exceeded 10 cm.

Weather Observations
Blowing Snow: 
No
Cloud Cover: 
Clear
Air temperature: 
Above Freezing
Wind Speed: 
Calm
Precipitation: 
Air temperature trend: 
Warming
Wind Direction: 
Accumulation rate: 
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