Southern San Juan

Avalanche

Pass Creek Yurt · Feb 3, 2022

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Weather

Cold. Light northerly wind at ridge top.

Snowpack

HST 24+”. Northerly slopes stabilized rapidly. From ECTPV and numerous observed avalanches on Wednesday to moderate ECTPs onWednesday evening to ECTNs on almost no signs of instability on Thursday. On Thursday, the most collapsing and cracking we observed was on southerly slopes. Slopewide collapses but no visible in cracks on southwest- facing near ridgetop slopes.

Avalanche

Numerous D1 to D1.5 avalanches running during the storm. We didn’t observe and larger avalanches but we also weren’t around larger terrain.