Now into the melt season, today I introduced a young hydrologist to the joys of snow survey. You need to have strong arms to hold up and weigh the snow sample, and stamina to deal with the cold conditions, but today we could enjoy fairly mild spring temperatures. Nearly 50cm snow depth (19cm SWE) remained at the larch site.
Snow survey result
Depth: larch 48cm / cedar 33cm
Density: larch 0.39 / cedar 0.33
SWE: larch 18.5 / cedar 10.5
(SWE = snow water equivalent)
