Northern San Juan

Snowpack

Mark Gober · Jan 28, 2016 · Northern San Juan

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Weather

very nice day above tree line. warm and calm winds

Snowpack

We wanted to look at northerly terrain as southerly terrain has proven to be quite touchy in the last few days. Digging near tree line on a NE aspect we found 145cm snowpack with the christmas slab accounting for 100cm of that. The upper snow pack had a thin 1cm wind created 'crust' (not a temperature crust) with facets below it that proved to be a layer of concern once we get more snow on it. This layer was 33cm down from surface. ECT24 Q2. Did not pop out but was a clean shear. Below this was the christmas slab which proved to be quite stout and did not fail on ECT.