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Observation Details

Observation Date:
January 29, 2025
Submitted:
January 29, 2025
Zone or Region:
Santa Fe Area
Activity:
Skiing/Snowboarding
Location:
Nambe

Signs of Unstable Snow

Did you see shooting cracks? 
No
Did you experience collapsing or whumpfing? 
Yes, Isolated

Observations

Went out to nambe for a ski before the new storm changes the conditions we’re dealing with. The upper portions were ~6” of knife hard pressed windslab over rocks with expected basal facets. The lower stretches and north westerly aspects of the bowl were highly wind textured. The northerly lower aprons had a layer of windslab measuring less than an inch to about four inches. These were sitting on top of ~6 inches of facets, on top of a knife hard crust. We did not experience any shooting cracks. My partner said that she felt a collapse in the flats.

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Some grass poking through at lower elevations
Windslab
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