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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