A 1 month time series of snow profiles was collected on Broken Leg Mountain, Swan Range
All pits were sampled as near to the same location as practical and at 6000'
This was perfomed mostly as an educational exercise.
A few items I found interesting:
While not unexpected the temperature profiles near the surface reflected the ambient temps occurring over this month. Temps near the bottom showed gradual warming of the pack from below. This thermometer was out of calibration so apply a +1F offset to the temp profiles.
The weak layer around 60cm from the bottom became more stubborn and finally unreactive.
Most interesting to me was how different the structure of the profiles was over such small distances and time intervals. I was expecting them to be much more similar but this area did generate small (1 ft) wind drifts occasionally and there was some gentle relief in the topography
