Sheep Creek

145 cm on the ground on a south aspect around 9400’ in Sheep Creek today. The snowpack on solar aspects is expectedly much more layered than shady slopes. There was a 1-2 cm crust 113 cm off the ground with small facets on either side (ECTN below the crust). The bottom 60 cms to the ground is made up of a variety of facets, melt forms, and depth hoar grains. Despite appearing poor in structure this layer is really dense and much more cohesive than the basal facets this time last year. We had no test results on this layer, but I’d be interested to see how it reacts in a PST once there’s a little more of a load on top.