Northern San Juan

Some small old wet activity observed.

Sunny, warm, and windy at the divide.

After colder temperatures on Thursday night, the top ~5 inches of the snowpack was refrozen at and above 12,000 feet. Snow patches on the road were supportable on the way up, but more post-holing occurred on the way down. The best snow coverage was observed on the mountains west of Animas Forks, on the north and east slopes. Normally, the Continental Divide holds the easiest access to high elevation snow in the late spring. This is not the case this year where a shallow snowpack and two weeks of unusually warm temperatures have melted many slopes back to bare ground.