Northern San Juan
SnowpackT K · Dec 23, 2012 · Northern San Juan
Weather
Warm, light clouds
Snowpack
Stable on the mining road. As soon as we stepped off the road to skin up, we caused the snow pack to collapse on a flat area, and a crack propagated 75+ feet causing a series of cracks on a 35 degree slope , approx. 30 feet above us on a convex tailings pile, all the way to the ground. We avoided this, climbed above, and caused the snow to settle on a flat spot which caused another crack to propagate on a 25-30 degree slope above us as far as we could see. Turned around and went home.