Sunday, Feb 22, 1998
   After a true "Nordic Start", Andee, Tok, and I left a car at Corner Mountain, drove up to Greenrock, and skied up to the Libby Creek overlook.  Weather alternated between snowing and sunshine.  About 3-4 inches fresh snow in that area.  After that we skied down to Barber Lake road.  Followed the Barber Lake trail all the way down.  Sunny much of the way.  Conditions on that trail were PRIMO!  Nothing like a couple of inches of new snow to put things right with the world. Only met a few other people on the trail.  I had never skied that whole route, so it was especially fun for me.  Tokie was tired (she's not a young dog anymore) but a happy dog when we got to Corner Mountain.

Snowpit Data:

Located at first Libby Creek overlook, SW-NW-24-16N-79W. Elev 10,000 ft,
on SSE facing, 22 deg slope.  68 cm total depth.

Surface - new snow, some wind loading.

0-4 cm      New snow, fist hard, wind packed stars.

5-11cm     Pencil hard crust, angular, 2-4 mm, well sintered.

11-40 cm  Four finger, angular (slightly rounded) 1-3 mm.

40-45 cm  Pencil hard, icy crust.

45-68 cm  Four finger hard, well developed cups, 3-4 mm.

68- ->       Ground, talus.

Shovel Shear - hard shear at 11 cm, at base of crust.

Observed some surface cracking around skis at some locations in this
area.  Also, in a few spots on small steeper spots where the wind had
loaded it more (up to 6 inches), the upper layer of wind loaded snow
would break off as a small slab between ski tracks.  This location has
highly variable wind loading over short distances, and it is difficult
to generalize.

Snowstake = 43.