Northern San Juan

Avalanche

Robert rech · Apr 4, 2017 · Northern San Juan

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Weather

Heavy snow all night and early morning 10" or so new.

Snowpack

Base is quite hard pack and very good sliding surface. 10" of new low density snow since last night.

Avalanche

Half way down the slope the new storm snow broke and slid past me with no impact Elevation 11800'SSW Crown 8-10" Width 50 ' Distance 200' Estimating R2D1 This broke above me in the new snow, which slid past harmlessly, if this had been on a bigger slope it could have pulled.down quite a bit more snow.