Northern San Juan

Snowpack

Josh Hirshberg · Dec 8, 2013 · Northern San Juan

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Weather

Thin clouds. Intermittent clearing and fog. Temps were too cold for the thermometer to work. Brief snow flurries. Calm.

Snowpack

On tour found an Avg HS 125. On NNE leeward slope @ 11,900ft HS ranged 135-185cm. Here, fresh Wind Slab was shallow. Stomping on it, it would fail in 4-6ft wide sections, but did not show much propagation. 90cm below the surface found older 1F hard wind deposited slab overlying F+ hard advanced facets (3.0mm). Generally weak faceted Spx on this slope.