Gunnison

Snowpack

Crested Butte Avalanche Center · Jan 30, 2013 · Gunnison

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Weather

0900hrs, Kebler Pass TH, 9400': No precip, strong westerly winds, moderate blowing snow. 1100hrs, Red-Coon Ridge, SE, 28*, 11000': snowing S-1, with light westerly winds and no blowing snow, Tair -15*C,

Snowpack

1100hrs, Red-Coon Ridge, SE, 28*, 11000': Tsurf -11*C, T20 -8*C, HS 103cm, HST 43cm, BP 95cm, quick pit revealed CTE(RP) X2 down 15 cm in current storm slab. Toured slopes to 35* with one localized collapse near an aspen grove on a 30* slope at 10500'