Southern San Juan

Snowpack

Mark Mueller · Jan 18, 2019 · Southern San Juan

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Weather

Partly cloudy skies with an isolated snow shower. NW winds were moving snow at all elevations in the afternoon. Cold temps near treeline and warm temps well below treeline. 9" of new snow this morning with 0.85" of water content.

Snowpack

Found some fresh, shallow, easily triggered windslab (D1) development on NE-E aspects near treeline. Below 9500' there was widepsread wet loose snow avalanche activity, reaching D1.5 in size.