Northern San Juan

Avalanche

Anonymous · Mar 22, 2020 · Northern San Juan

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Weather

Overcast, light snow, light winds out of the west.

Snowpack

3-6 inches of new snow from last night. No signs of instability observed on similar terrain. Informal hand shear produced no results.

Avalanche

Middle Mountain, West facing, NTL, SS-Aru-R3-D2.5-O, 16in x 400ft x 1700ft. First skier skied slope without incident and waited for skier 2 at the road cut near the bottom of the path. Skier 2 dropped in skiers left of skier 1's track and made 4-5 turns before the slide broke above skier 2. Skier 2 was able to ski out of the slide to skiers right.