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Snow Conditions at Paradise (up to about 7500 feet)

 

- Heavy Snow coming down, intermittent but mild winds.

- 8-18" of new most places. Mostly mildly windpacked powder (shattered crytals) with evidence of moderately high winds from the Northeast above abo)ut 7000 feet.

-Soft slab formation (about a foot on leeward aspects), sliding relatively easily atop the frozen raincrust. Avy hazard might have been considerable on these aspects but things seemed pretty stable elsewhere.

-Cooling temps.

 

Met a couple of guys headed up to Muir in pretty heavy conditions for an attempt on the Nisqually Icefall route. Hope that climb goes well fellas...

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