Gunnison

Snowpack

Crested Butte Avalanche Center · Feb 18, 2015 · Gunnison

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Weather

Weather: High, thin clouds; no precip; strong solar radiation; moderate winds from north, temps in the 20s in AM, low 30s in PM.

Snowpack

Snow / Avy: Less than 1cm of new snow; heavily wind-effected (scoured, loaded, crusted, drifted...); surface was everything from a supporting crust up to 5cm thick to wind-scalloped but soft to drifted in and soft.