Mt Judah

Location Name: Mt Judah Region: Donner Summit Area Observation Date & Time: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - 13:00
Location: 39.302284, -120.316258 See map: CalTopo	Is this an Avalanche Observation?: No

Observation made by: Public

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Observation

Description of Snow, Weather, and Avalanche Conditions:

I toured up Mt Judah to monitor the same area I've been making obs the past few weeks.

The faceting process appears to be ongoing, with a deeper near surface layer of facets, and a weaker surface crust which now easily breaks and slides on the underlying faceted layer while shoveling and with a shovel shear test.

70cm HS with growing surface faceted layer under crust at 8100' NE aspect

bad photo but crust breaks and slides easily on top of upper faceted layer

weak dry faceted snow in upper near surface layer

wild surface conditions on exposed SE aspect at 8200'

Snowpit or crown profile photo or graph:

Snowpack Details

Total Snow Depth:

70cm

Persistent Weak Layers:

Buried

Terrain Details

Terrain: elevations:

Near Treeline

Terrain: aspects:

Weather Details

Elevation of Observation:

7000 - 8000 ft.

Blowing Snow:

None

Wind Speed:

Calm

Sky Cover:

Clear

Precipitation:

None

Air temperature:

Above Freezing

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