In addition, Damfino, Mundal, Onota, Revel, and Rixon soils have a paralithic contact at 20 to 40 inches. Rawsonville and Tunbridge soils have a lithic contact at 20 to 40 inches. Welcome soils are on mountain plateaus and shoulder slopes at elevations of l,500 to 2,500 feet. Slopes are 0 to 65 percent. The soils formed in volcanic ash and colluvium and slope alluvium from sandstone and glacial till.
Summers are warm and dry.
Winters are cold and wet with snow cover lasting from December through March. Average annual precipitation is 55 to 90 inches. The frost-free season is ll0 to l40 days. These are the competing Revel soils and the Beausite , Cathcart , Elwell , Montborne , Nati , Rinker , and Teneriffe soils. Beausite, Cathcart, and Nati soils are mesic and Beausite moderately deep to a lithic contact.