Northern San Juan

Avalanche

Chris Snell · Apr 11, 2019 · Northern San Juan

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Weather

Obscured skies, S1 snowfall, moderate winds from the N with blowing snow.

Snowpack

Skied lower Commodore N + BTL around 9am. Found 10-12" new with drifts up to 20+". NTL most of the exposed windward aspects and terrain features stripped back to old snow surface/crust. New drifts and fresh wind slab easily cracked and failed on the old snow surface with skier pressure. Hard to tell with low vis, but possibly a little dust near the bottom of storm snow or at interface.

Avalanche

Got one small wind slab to go NTL on a NE aspect, old/new interface, ran about 150'. SS-AR-R1-D1.