Northern San Juan

Mostly clear, light westerly winds and hovering around 25F at 11,000ft

While probing along uphill, this east-northeast large gully feature was found to hold an average snowpack height of 60cm. Today, checked out a profile which was adjacent to a previous snowpit sample taken on January 1 and had the same depth of 70cm around 11,000ft on a northeast-facing slope. The two most notable differences found was the abscence of the "Thanksgiving" drought melt-freeze crust layer and the ongoing decomposition of a once stout crust layer formed during a significantly warm period in mid-December compounded by a rain event on Christmas. Seems accelerated near-surface faceting took place over the last 12 days where granular sluffs can be provoked in steep places and likely pose stability issues once a fresh slab is added to our weak setup.