Southern San Juan

Avalanche

Mark Mueller · Jan 8, 2014 · Southern San Juan

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Weather

Increasing clouds as the day progressed. Overcast skies by afternoon, winds backed to the SW and occasional snowflakes were observed.

Snowpack

No signs of instabiity. Surface faceting common on nearly all below TL aspects. Suncrust observed on sunny aspects and windcrust observed on exposed Nerly aspects from recent periods of N winds. CTH21SC (N aspect at 10,800', False Railroad Pass) on 12/2/13 SH layer 60cm below surface. This is the lowest failure score we've seen in quite awhile.

Avalanche

The last observed avalanche activity was almost 3 weeks ago.