Northern San Juan

Avalanche

Ian Hoyer · Mar 6, 2015 · Northern San Juan

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Weather

Beautiful and warm day in the mountains. Clear skies and temps near freezing.

Snowpack

Dug on an E aspect NTL. Found a facet-crust sandwich below the Feb 22 crust. Mixed snowpack tests results. PST35/100(END), ECTX, CTM(SC) all on facets above bottommost crust (Jan 11?). Percolation columns into the facets below. Snow surface became wet and then crusted in the afternoon.

Avalanche

Observed several small Wet Loose avalanche this afternoon.