Buck Ridge Observations

From email: at Buck Ridge: "The difference in snow was astonishing within the 6 days. Last week pure sugar and facets lived on the surface sounding like crumply glass as you rode through. Today everything was far more dense and attempting to support the sleds on The terrain just beyond the alpha angles enough to have some over the hood pow play without bouncing off rocks. Between wind and finally getting some snow with moisture in it, low angle areas outside the trees are racking up the inches. It snowed ~2" while we rode.

There's a substantial crunch layer to north faces now in McAtee just off Muddy and visible in trenches dug to the ground. Beaver and 1^st towards the ridgeline trail held far more snow - as you drop lower into each basin the quality and depth diminishes. 2^nd , 3^rd and McAtee must have been just out of the main drop of the last storm."