Northern San Juan

Avalanche

Michael Barney · Apr 3, 2014 · Northern San Juan

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Weather

Clouds were in and out with light to moderate NNW winds

Snowpack

No other signs of instability were observed. Fast loose snow sloughing.

Avalanche

around 2:00pm on the apron of the spider face on a north aspect at about 11500' The crown was approximately 2 to 3' deep and 50 to 60' wide it ran about 200' ASu-SS-R1D1.5-I As I looked closer at the picture its obvious the slide broke into old layers. if you look at the crown closely there are multiple dust layers within the slab.