Snowpack Essay

The snow pack in Colorado is more prone to avalanches than anywhere else in America. A reason why the snowpack is so dangerous is because of the thick heavy layers of snow on top of weak layers of snow. That causes the slab of heavy to slide creating a big avalanche. A way that these layers of snow are formed are light layer of snow that gets sunbaked and then more snow that gets wind blown and packed. Then the bottom layer gets really sugary and the top layer gets hard and packed. Then when a skier skis on top of it the slab layer slides on the sugary layer making a big slab avalanche.