Northern San Juan

Avalanche

Jaime Odin · Apr 26, 2019 · Northern San Juan

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Weather

-Partly sunny/partly cloudy, depending on your outlook -Cloudier above treeline with quickly changing visibility and cloud cover -Intermittent snow -Gusty at the top (last 500ft of climb so around 12,300ft and above)

Snowpack

Started @ 8:15am at 11,120ft with hard packed, firm snow w/ crust on surfaced. Ascent towards McMillan peak was pretty much hard packed the entire way. Ascent was S and SE. Last 200ft (12,600ft and above) was icy making it very difficult to skin up. Descent: snow softened up progressively until the meadow (11,200ft) at which point it was pretty slushy around 11:30am at all aspects

Avalanche

Evidence of debris, roller balls at and below treeline on the run Putney on easterly facing slopes above 30deg slope angle @ 11:30am. Evidence of small point and release slide seen w/ debris towards the runout of the slide (wet loose).