Medicine Bow Nordic Ski Patrol
Patrol Log: Sunday, February 15, 1998: H. Heasler 

15 February, 1998
Patroller - Henry Heasler
Weather conditions: 30 F, 0 to 5 mph winds, overcast.

Vehicle count at 9:30 am:
  1 - Corner Mtn
  1 - Little Laramie
  6 - Sand Lake Road
  78 - end of road

Talked with Alice and Margaret at Centennial Visitor�s Center.  They requested that I try to contact them via radio since they experienced communication problems with Hamann the day before.. 

Snow Pit analysis:
  Location:    13T 0396738, 4579918 UTM (near Brooklyn Lake)
  Elevation:  10,800 ft
  Aspect:       se facing
  Slope angle:  20 degrees
  Air temperature: -1 C
  Time:  12:30 p.m.
     Layer 1 - 0 to 5 cm; stellar crystals, 1 to 2 mm;
                     fist hardness.
     Layer 2 - 5 to 21 cm; dendrites to needles,
                     1 mm; fist hardness; temperature at 20 cm was �6 C.

     Layer 3 - 21 to 48 cm; angular sintered spheres, 0.5 to 1 mm;
                     four finger hardness; temperature at 40 cm was �6 C.
     Layer 4 � 48 to 80 cm; angular sintered spheres, 0.25 to 0.5  mm;
                     one finger hardness; temperature at 60 cm was �6 C.

     Layer 5 � 80 to 106; welded angular sintered spheres, 0.25 to 0.5 mm;
                     pencil hardness; temperature at 80 cm was �4 C temperature
                     at 100 cm was -3 C.
     Layer 6 � 106 to 155 cm; columnar hexagonal plates, 2 to 3  mm;
                     fist hardness; temperature at 120 cm was �2 C.

     No Rutschblock was attempted due to consolidation of
     upper 106 cm of snow.
Radio contacts with Centennial visitor�s Center were successfully made throughout the day with no difficulty.
At end of road at 3:30 pm, 5 vehicles with snowmobile trailers were parked in the No Parking zone.  Two were from Colorado, 2 from Nebraska, and 1 from Natrona County.  They had parked on both sides of the turn-around, making it difficult for even small cars
to get through.

Vehicle count at 3:30 pm:
  12 - Corner Mtn
  0 - Little Laramie
  8 � Sand Lake Road
  119 - end of road

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