Northern San Juan

Snowpack

Colin Mitchell · Mar 2, 2019 · Northern San Juan

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Weather

S2 with obscured skies. Snow began in earnest around 11:30.

Snowpack

Unexpectedly deep snowpack on this slope. Average HS was around 250 cm, the deepest spots were 280. I dug down about 1.5 meters and found a layer of rounding facets down ~100 cm. See profile for details. The new snow was mixed with graupel, and was easily pushed off of yesterday's crust while skinning, but it wasn't sliding.