Northern San Juan

Avalanche

Anonymous · Mar 11, 2023

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Weather

OVC for most of day with S1- on and off all day. Light winds on and off out of the SW without much snow transport observed.

Snowpack

HN12 on deck of Addie S cabin as of 0600 this morning was 15 cm overnight Friday. Toured on west side of pass. No cracking. No collapses. Unremarkable pit results on north aspects at 11,200. New snow appears to have bonded well. Very visible interface about 40 cm down. Just not a lot of action on it. Q1 failures on small columns on south’s @ new/old interface 35 cm down.

Avalanche

Cleared up for about an hour 13:00-14:00 with good viz. Could see all the way south to Bear and Carbon/ Red 3 to north. No natural activity visible.