Northern San Juan

Avalanche

Fritz Sperry · Mar 15, 2024 · Northern San Juan

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Weather

Snowing lightly

Snowpack

On most assessments, hand pits we had no result at the interface of storm snow and older snow. There was about 18" of new in the zone

Avalanche

Our group of four was descending in a highly managed way. One at a time, observation point to observation point. We arrived at the crux and saw an old slide in the gut of the path, it was small d1/r1. I placed a ski cut above the convexity and got the expected result of another small slide, d1/r1. Once the threat was mitigated we kept our protocols tight.