Northern San Juan

Snowpack

Jeff Davis · Mar 30, 2016 · Northern San Juan

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Weather

Clouds came in and out during the day. Snow squalls produced about 2" of snow during the day today. Temps remind cool and clouds kept solar input down.

Snowpack

No natural activity observed. Yesterday's new snow is bonding well on E and NE aspects. The hight of the new snow ranges from 8-14 inches and has formed a 4 finger soft slab. This slab showed little signs of instability on ski testing, but when isolating a block of snow on the old bed surface I was able to be pull it away as one piece. This did take some force, but leaves me to believe that on a slope steeper the 35 degrees you could trigger a soft slab avalanche in localized areas.