Northern San Juan

Snowpack

Mark Gober · Jan 3, 2013 · Northern San Juan

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Weather

Clear, cool and very calm. Beautiful day.

Snowpack

We did not take time to dig anywhere, but the general concept in that area was very thin, weak, cohesionless snow below TL. It was very easy to initiate small sluffs in steep terrain. Above TL it was a mixed bag of boiler plate hard slabs and grass/rock. Overall the depth we encountered was between 12" and 24". Anywhere that there was a more northerly tilt to aspect the amount of snow increased, but we did not venture onto any of that terrain.