Northern San Juan

Snowpack

Sat - 11:00 a.m. Second Gully, an ice climb above Eureka, Colorado ran with an avalanche that had a debris zone of about 50 yards long and 20 yards wide. I had been in the area and it ran over my tracks, so I wanted to report it in case someone is worried that footprints led in but not back out. Deposition was balled up very wet snow that accumulated 2 to 3 feet deep. Observed a number of well above timberline south and east facing small to medium avalanche debris zones, but did not observe when they ran. Two very large boulders (each about 9 cubic feet) fell off of Outward Bound Wall and ended up on the unplowed road (CO 110?). These occurred somewhere in the 11 to noon time frame also. Lots of small rock releases that seemed to result from the melting of ice and snow on a very warm day. No human involvement in either trigger nor was anyone on the climb at the time