Northern San Juan

Snowpack

Mark Gober · Feb 20, 2017 · Northern San Juan

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Weather

Perfect Colorado day. Light-mod west wind on top of peak, otherwise cool and blue.

Snowpack

In the alpine there was evidence of recent snow that had been redistributed by the wind (sculpting, etc...) but we didn't see evidence of reactive wind slabs except for directly off of the ridgeline at close to 13k.Tracks are quickly being laid in most locations in the NSJ with no evidence of avalanches. Below TL on cold aspects we found very weak surface snow that sluffed and moved downhill with little effort. This could be a poor interface once it gets buried.