Northern San Juan
AvalancheJeff Davis Jason Konigsberg · Jan 27, 2016 · Northern San Juan
Weather
Mild weather with few clouds and mild temps. Winds were light out of the NW.
Snowpack
No instabilities noted in the storm snow. Warm temps have helped the snow settle and now is only to top 10cm's on the snowpack. Recent SW and NW winds have loaded and cross-loaded slopes. Roller-balling observed on solar aspects late in the day. Today we witnessed that it is still possible for a skier to trigger a Persistent Slab avalanche in the upper snowpack. These avalanches have the potential to step down to the ground. Most likely to trigger an avalanche on Southerly half.
Avalanche
Southerly aspects are showing there instability's. Today we witnessed two skier triggered avalanches. One was above treeline on a S and SW