Northern San Juan

Snowpack

Mark Gober · Dec 27, 2013 · Northern San Juan

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Weather

blue skies, low 20's, north winds 10-20 g-30's

Snowpack

Dug pit on SE aspect at TL. I had 3 Q1 CTV in 3 different attempts. The first failure was in facets under a 7cm wind slab. The second was under another 7cm wind slab directly below the first one. Maybe .25cm of facets separated them. The third was 40cm down from surface under an old wind slab that saw some sunshine at some point. It was K hard and it failed directly below the slab on facets. The northerly terrain I ended up on was very stripped by recent N winds and had a 3-5cm wind slab capping faceted snow. It had also slid recently and ended up on debris fairy quick