Northern San Juan

Avalanche

Jasper Thompson · Feb 14, 2018 · Northern San Juan

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Weather

Moderate Southerly winds, blowing snow, overcast.

Snowpack

We had some nice near and above treeline skiing today in Niagara Gulch, ~12000ft East and Southeast aspects around 30degrees. I dug a few quick pits. Snowdepth was 90-120cm, there are two melt freeze crusts about 40 or 50cm up. I had CTV on the ground, CTM RP on the upper melt freeze crust, ECTP23 on the upper melt freeze crusts, as well as CTM RP about 20cm down in this weeks storm snow.

Avalanche

There was some old debris on NE aspect of Topeka gulch near treeline.