Southern San Juan
SnowpackBrent Herring · Nov 11, 2022 · Southern San Juan
Weather
Blue bird, calm, ~15F
Snowpack
Variable and thin. Encountered a weakening snowpack on N through NE aspects BTL. Other aspects were considerably thinner with melt-freeze crusts. Dug a hand pit on an ENE aspect ~11.5k NTL: 2.5" pencil hard wind crust overlying 4" of fist hard facets beneath, a 12" finger hard slab, with a few inches of basal facets beneath. Wind affected ATL with a small cornice building on the eastern side of the north rib of Engineer. Also experienced some localized collapsing in low angle areas out of skin track.