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Isabelle Glacier

40.0620, −105.6472 · 3,792 m · E · 44° · 0 ha on Sep 12

Gone

From the satellite, Sep 12 pass. No ground report in the last 10 days.

See what we saw

Drag the handle to compare two passes. The blue line is what the scanner counted as snow.

A · JUL 9 · CLEAR · 10.2 HAB · SEP 12 · CLEAR · 0 PX
0    200 m
N
Every pass this season · pick A and B

Sentinel-2 L2A true color, read at 20 m. One pixel is 0.04 ha. A strip narrower than about 40 m can hold skiable snow and show nothing. By mid-September, north-facing cirques sit in shadow at the late-morning overpass, so one zero isn't proof of anything.

How we got to this status

  1. The Sep 24 pass was cloudy over the site (100%), so a cloudy pass counts as no look, not as zero. This uses the Sep 12 pass.
  2. Sep 12 pass fully covers the site and is clear over it.
  3. No snow pixels in the window (under 3 px counts as zero).
  4. Not flagged as possible new snow.
  5. A second clear zero in a row (after Sep 4), so it reads Gone.
Scan run 1 · status rules 2026.09-2
NDSI > 0.4 · NIR ≥ 0.6 × green · SCL mask · algorithm 2026.09-2

Getting there

Approach
~3.5 h · 8 km one way
Route
Long Lake TH, Brainard Lake area; timed-entry permit in season
Estimate
Munter rule from straight-line distance and climb. Rough.

Snow on each pass

Hectares of counted snow. Grey stubs are passes with cloud over the site.
0 ha1234567891011JUL 4: cloud or not coveredJUL 9: 10.16 haJUL 14: 9.24 haJUL 19: cloud or not coveredJUL 24: 5.08 haJUL 26: cloud or not coveredJUL 29: 4.68 haAUG 3: 2.8 haAUG 8: 1 haAUG 13: cloud or not coveredAUG 15: cloud or not coveredAUG 18: cloud or not coveredAUG 23: 0 haAUG 28: cloud or not coveredSEP 2: cloud or not coveredSEP 4: 0 haSEP 7: cloud or not coveredSEP 12: 0 haSEP 17: cloud or not coveredSEP 22: cloud or not coveredSEP 24: cloud or not coveredJUL 4JUL 19JUL 29AUG 13AUG 23SEP 4SEP 17SEP 24

From the ground

Disappeared in the few weeks before Sep 23.

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