Northern San Juan

Avalanche

Anonymous · Jan 27, 2016 · Northern San Juan

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Weather

Clear, windy. 20 gusting 35+ light cloud cover.

Snowpack

Failure 20 cm down on density break. Other than that no failures on CT or ECT.

Avalanche

R3 D2 200 m wide. Approximately 34 degree slope. Ran 450 ft. Crown varried between 1 ft to 5 ft on the western edge of it. Triggered by 2nd skier approaching edge of slab on 4th turn. Skier was not caught and stayed out of slide. Skied down without incident. Tracks visible on lookers left edge of the slide. Skiers 3 & 4 tracks visible on far lookers right after the slide.