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Forecast for the Abajos Area Mountains

Eric Trenbeath
Issued by Eric Trenbeath on
Saturday morning, March 14, 2020
Most terrain has generally LOW danger. Blowing and drifting snow have created isolated wind slabs on upper elevation slopes facing NW-N-E. In these areas there is a MODERATE danger for human triggered avalanches involving recent deposits of wind drifted snow.
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Weather and Snow
Another unimpressive storm for the Abajos ​​​​​​brought 2"-4" of medium density snow to the mountains. But at least we had wind! Strong southerly winds blew most of the day yesterday averaging 20-30 mph with gusts to 50 along ridge tops before starting to back off around 8:00 p.m last night. They'll continue to blow today in the 15-20 mph range. Skies should gradually clear becoming partly sunny later in the day. High temps in the low 30's. Tomorrow will see mostly sunny skies with high temps near 40. Conditions remain dry until at least Wednesday.
I received this observation yesterday that describes 2"-4" of new snow on top of variable crusts, and very little going on from an avalanche perspective.
Snow totals at Buckboard Flat (8924')
Snow totals at Camp Jackson (8858')
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This forecast is from the U.S. Forest Service, which is solely responsible for its content. This forecast describes general avalanche conditions and local variations always occur.
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