Northern San Juan

Weather

Mennehaha Basin area. No new snow. Overcast today with small pockets of sun. Not as hot as yesterday, maybe 20F at 10AM. Pit at about 12,100ft. NE facing. Snow height 160cm. 35cm of snow from recent storm. Persistent slab 120cm down, still possible to touch from skier impact. Forgot my saw… No testing. The storm snow seemed to be bonding well to the layer below. Maybe the warmth from yesterday helped with bonding. South facing had a crust layer. At about 11,000ft the South crust was 2cm-3cm thick. At about 10,000ft the South crust layer was 3-4cm thick and had very large surface hoar on it. North facing snow was POW! Lots of avalanche activity from this storm. Large natural avalanches on E-NE-N-NW-W. Point release avalanches on E. The drive from Cement Creek to Silverton through Molas Pass and Coal Bank Pass had avalanches and activity everywhere!! Scary! The Idaho slide path on Kendall Mountain slid along with the two other major slide paths lookers right of the Idaho path. Lots of North facing slopes broke at rocks and steep zones. Lots of cracking on North and East facing slopes. Snowmobile triggered avalanche on North face on Molas Pass that broke pretty large, but had nowhere to run. Activity everywhere.