Gunnison

Avalanche

Zach Guy · Feb 21, 2025 · Gunnison

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Weather

Mild temps with a greenhouse feel. No wind. cloud cover: broken; wind loading: none; recent snowfall (cm): 4; snow avail for transport: small smounts

Snowpack

I was aggressively hunting for signs of instability with ski stabs, postholing, stomps in suspect terrain. I got one collapse that radiated about 20 feet. I was standing above a start zone and adjacent to another when I triggered the collapse and neither produced cracking or released.

Avalanche

Most of the steep slopes in this area appear to be intact after the cycle, though maybe there was some activity early in the storm that is now obscured.