Northern San Juan

Weather

Our potent storm is finally winding down. High precipitation rates and strong winds battered the San Juans for roughly 18 hours, effectively loading numerous paths with feet of new snow. Today’s mitigation results were nothing shy of impressive. Below are Snow Totals from our hwy study plots and some of the results from today’s avalanche mitigation work. Hwy 550 Snow Totals: HN24/water equiv Monument 10” (settled)/.95” Red Mtn. Pass 14” (settled)/1.45” Molas Pass 16”/1/45” Coal Bank Pass 20”/1.8” Avalanche Mitigation Results: Path Size Road Covered Mother Cline R3D2.5 2’-6’ x 200’ Total East Riverside North several R2D2 8’ x 100’ Total East Riverside South R2D2 3’ x 40’ Blue Point Group Multiple slides R3D2 4’-8’ x 550’ Total Ledges Multiple slides R2D2 4’-5’ x 400’ Eagle/Telescope 1 large slide affecting both Eagle & Telescope R4D3 12’-18’ x 800’ Total Brooklyns Multiple slides R2D2 (one road hit) 2’ x 80’ E. Lime Creek R2D2 3’ x 30’ W. Lime Creek 6 slides R2D2 2’-6’ x 300’ Total Henry Brown 4 slides R2D2 2’-6’ x 500’ Engineers B & C 2 slides R2D2 Reached edge of road Tomorrow we’ll get a brief break in the weather followed by another round of snow on Thursday.