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March 1, 2020, San Juan Snowpack update

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Jonathan P. Thompson
Mar 02, 2020
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Average to middling. That describes the San Juan Mountain snowpack as of March 1 -- at least at the higher elevation stations that River of Lost Souls monitors. At lower elevations there's pretty much nothing. The Animas Valley looks like a big sheet of beige.

I was fortunate enough to be able to sample the snowpack first-hand this weekend at the Durango…

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