Details

• Date: 2020/02/10

• Observer: Mark Mueller
• Organization: Forecaster, CAIC

Location

• BC Zone: Southern San Juan
• Area Description: Wolf Creek Pass/Lobo

Weather

• Ridgeline Wind Speed: 20-30 mph
• Ridgeline Wind Direction: SW
• Wind Loading: Moderate
• Temperature: 22 F
• Depth of New Snow: 4 in
• Depth of Total Snow: 56 in
• Most Significant Precip Rate: S-1 - < 1 cm/hr
• Weather Description: Cloudy skies with light snow, temperatures in the 20s at Pass level and moderate SW winds. 4" of new snow with 0.2" of water content measured at the CAIC Snow Study Plot. Light snowfall rates contributed only minimal additional snow by the time we left.

Snowpack

• Snowpack Description: Small, fresh wind slab avalanches were easily triggered in known locations where fresh windloading would be the most significant. Otherwise, no signs of instability. Low density new snow was easily eroded from windward slopes. Modest new snow amounts bonded well to widespread melt-freeze crusts.

Avalanches

	Date	Location/Path	#	Elev	Asp	Type	Trig	SizeR	SizeD
	2020/02/10  †	Wolf Creek Pass	3	TL	NE	SS	AS / c	R1	D1
Date: 2020/02/10 (Estimated) Observer: Mark Mueller Organization: Forecaster, CAIC Area Description: Suiciden Bowl, top left Landmark: Wolf Creek Pass Sliding Surface: I - New/Old Interface Average Crown: 6 in Maximum Crown: 8 in Maximum Width: 30 ft Maximum Vertical: 100 ft

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