Northern San Juan

Avalanche

Anonymous · Mar 26, 2020 · Northern San Juan

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Weather

Rude continuous wind from SW strafing the alpine and actively loading NE slopes and cross loading others.. A quick warmup with strong sun.

Snowpack

Natural avalanches on almost every aspect in the alpine, either from sun or wind, mostly wind.

Avalanche

US Basin NW aspect ATL HS-N-R2-D2 on frequent runner wind roll. Kendall Mtn NW aspect ATL crossloaded gully feature. Other part of same gully ran 03.15. HS-N-R2-D2.5 on the facets under all the recent storm snow?. Macomber Peak W aspect, ATL HS-N-R3-D2 propagated across some terrain, could not see runout so D2 is estimated. Looks under 24 hrs, from this morning? Brendel Gulch CR 110 SE aspect ATL HS-N-R3-D2.5 crossloaded funnel shaped start zone. Dome Mtn CR110 E aspect ATL HS-N-R2-D2 wind loaded King Solomon Mtn NE aspect ATL HS-N-R3.5-D3 the shallower part of this funnel start zone went to the ground, est 1.7m deep, propagated across funnel feature and ran on a nearer surface layer on more drifted side of funnel, which is slightly more easterly and holds more snow. Debris went full track. Fresh from this morning.