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Avalanche

(public) Crested Butte Avalanche Center · Feb 14, 2019 · Gunnison

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Weather

Overcast day with calm winds and warm temps. Starting snowing S1 at 1330.

Snowpack

Today we toured up from the bottom of Elk Creek through Evans basin and over to RLG. We dug on a near treeline, east facing aspect with a hint of north in Elk Basin. HS 200cm, CT 12 SC on small grained facets down 65cm's (1/21) The 1/15 PWL was down 80cm's.

Avalanche

While touring up the Evans Basin ridge we remote triggered the steep, E-SE slope from 30' away. It ran 150m wide and ran to the valley floor. Crown averaged 40cm's deep with max depth of 65cms's. It ran on small grained facets above a stout 2cm thick melt freeze crust. It was the 1/15 or 1/21 PWL. Midslope, it stepped down to the holiday? PWL for a 15m wide crown. SS-ASr-D2.5-O