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Close up photo of surface hoar
- cchapin
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02 Jan 2012 23:37 #97926
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My wife shot these photos of surface hoar in Utah last week, where the nights were clear and cold. We found it mostly on north\shaded aspects. I thought it really represented the champagne glass scenario quite well - when I put a bunch of it my hand it quickly lost all structure and turned to something similiar to sugar.
I haven't seen surface at all in the past few years given that I ski mostly out here in the PNW, so this was really pretrty cool. It was easy to envision how a hard wind slab could slowly and carefully build itself on top.
Enjoy.
I haven't seen surface at all in the past few years given that I ski mostly out here in the PNW, so this was really pretrty cool. It was easy to envision how a hard wind slab could slowly and carefully build itself on top.
Enjoy.
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03 Jan 2012 08:29 #97938
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Great shots, Chris.
I shudder to think of how slippery a layer that would be covered with a couple of feet of heavy, consolidated snow.
I shudder to think of how slippery a layer that would be covered with a couple of feet of heavy, consolidated snow.
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03 Jan 2012 10:09 #97944
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Our snow often looks like that over here in the Wenatchee Mtns.
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13 Jan 2012 23:03 #98459
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