Medicine Bow Nordic Ski Patrol
Patrol Log:  Saturday, March 18, 2000:  H. Heasler, C. Jaworowski
March 20, 2000
Cheryl Jaworowski and Henry Heasler

9:00 am, 0 cars - Corner Mountain, 0 cars - Little
Laramie, 2 cars-Sand Lake, end of road - 74 snowmobilers,
 2 were RV's, 6 were cars, not including vehicles past Green Rock.

Skied to Twin Lakes via upper Potholes corridor and backcountry travel.
8 inches new snow.  Low to moderate avalanche conditions.

4:00 pm, 0 vehicle  - Corner Mountain, 2 vehicles - Little
Laramie, 85 snowmobilers at end of road
(including up to Snowy Mtn Lodge), 6 were not snowmobile
 trailers.

Very hasty snowpit at 10,480 feet, 1 mile south of
North Twin Lakes, flat slope,
air temperature - 18 F, wind 5 to 10 mph, overcast,
light snow, and sunshine.
0-20 cm: new snow stellar crystals, 1 fist hardness.
20-20.5 cm: ice layer
20.5-90 cm: rounded and disaggregated crystals,
well-metamorphosed, 1 fist hardness.

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