Northern San Juan

Snowpack

Daniel Zokaites · Jan 11, 2016 · Northern San Juan

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Weather

At 1pm in the alpine zone just above Sam's Trees (12,100ft), cold with a mostly clear sky. Winds were moderate from the NW with moderate blowing snow at our location and on ridge tops.

Snowpack

At 1pm in the alpine zone just above Sam's Trees(12,100ft) the snow surface is wind affected and 5-15cm wind slabs had formed on N-E slopes. These winds slabs are siting on top of very low density snow and were producing lots of cracking and collapsing around our skin track. We did not visit other aspects.