Gunnison

Snowpack

Crested Butte Avalanche Center · Feb 17, 2016 · Gunnison

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Weather

Few clouds, calm swirling winds near the top of RCG. Warm temps strong solar.

Snowpack

New snow has settled into a fast moving inch of warm snow. Stout 4-5cm MFcr provided mostly supportable skiing until 10,600' from there on out the skiing was moist throughout the MFcr at 1300 hrs. No signs of instabilities throughout the tour. Moist grains 10cm below the MFcr @ 10,600' dry below the crust @ 11,400'.