Gunnison

Snowpack

John MacKinnon · Feb 3, 2013 · Gunnison

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Weather

Overcast skies with thin high clouds, high temp of -1 at 2pm, steady moderate westerly winds with light blowing snow, and a slight trace of snow in the afternoon.

Snowpack

Sunny slopes steeper than 15 degrees had a breakable melt-freeze crust. Did get one rumbling collapse on a SW aspect. Last week's storm has settled to~ 40 cm (F+) on a NE aspect at 10,400 ft. HS averaged 100 cm throughout tour. Bottom 50 cm of snpx is facets trending to depth hoar (4F-F). Lots of past and some current wind effect in valley bottoms--skin track blew in almost entirely in a span of 2 hours. Got some minor cracking in a locally wind-loaded area.