Northern San Juan

Snowpack

Ann Mellick · Nov 23, 2020 · Northern San Juan

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Weather

Mostly cloudy, mild and breezy. Couple flakes of snow falling, but no accumulation through the day.

Snowpack

Recent warm temperatures have both eroded and strengthened the snowpack. All paths have lost significant volume and few (any?) hold sufficient snow volume to support flows to the highway. Warm temperatures have consolidated early November snowfall, created melt freeze crusts on sunny slopes and have encouraged rounding on slopes below treeline. Quick pit in the Brooklyns revealed a warm snowpack as well- HS 40 cm of laminar crusts and moist facets. Not reactive in the least (no results on tests). Mushy.