eugene@ames.UUCP (02/06/86)
Location: Pear Lake Ski Hut, Sequoia NP, 9,200 feet
Date: 2/3
Air Temperature: Low 15F High 32F
Wind Direction and Velocity: W-NW 10-15 MPH
Cloud cover: 100%
Overall weather accessment: Stormy, cold front, periods of lightning and hail
Snow depth: 6 feet
Elevation of measure (base): 5 feet
Physical Snow Characteristics: grapel and hail with wet powder at high elev.
Water content (if known): around .15 (we melted snow)
Backcountry avalanche hazard: high
X-C Wax: blue
Lift Lines wait (if a downhill resort): none
Ancillary Comments: it was good to get away from work after The incident;
this was the (I think) 36th annual Caltech Synch. Rad Lab trip
as Pat Burke explained the history. We had mostly geologists
talking about computers [my god, can't get away] (talking about tbl/eqn,
Sun-3s and uVax-2s). We had a token EE from the Galileo project
and I was the token comp. sci. person. Skiers are generally getting better
because we now have 8 people doing steep descents where we had 2/3 before.
A snow pit had hard layers atop weaker layers. One storm blew all the
good snow away leaving a wind crust over soft snow (2/1). Lots of other
fun which I won't cover.
From the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers:
--eugene miya
NASA Ames Research Center
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