Southern San Juan

Snowpack

Matt Huber · Feb 16, 2021 · Southern San Juan

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Weather

Very light snowfall with broken to overcast skies. Temperatures remained cold, single digits to low teens.

Snowpack

No obvious signs of instability while on skis. The snowpack varies between 2.5 and 3 meters on northerly-facing slopes near treeline. The 1/19 persistent weak layer(crusts/facets) is buried about 1.5 meters below the surface now and is unreactive in extended column tests. The upper 1.5 meters of snowpack is right-side up, fist minus at the surface increasing to pencil at the 1/19 interface.