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Signs of Unstable Snow

Observations

In travels yesterday I observed some developing wind slabs on a NNW facing ridge line, but these were not present below ridge line. A pit dug at approx 12200 in a wind drift showed a 2m snowpack that had a hard force collapse near the ground, rough planar. This depth was not observed anywhere else in travels. Hand pits dig throughout the day showed a right side up structure although there was also a knife hard crust with extremely patchy and variable distribution buried 45cm from the surface. Some natural dry loose happened near cliffs above tree line, but they failed to entrain any snow.