Northern San Juan

Snowpack

Josh Hirshberg · Dec 20, 2016 · Northern San Juan

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Weather

Clear, calm, and mild all day. Light NW-SW winds w/ gusts to ~10mph @ 13,000ft. No wind transport observed. Beautiful day on the high peaks!

Snowpack

No collapsing and cracking observed as we traveled over significant elevation range. While supportive and consistently hard layering below treeline, snowpack is much more variable in depth, layering, and overall strength near and above treeline. Near TL structure was most suspect for triggering Persistent Slabs