Gunnison

Avalanche

Crested Butte Avalanche Center · Mar 16, 2014 · Gunnison

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Weather

WX: COld and clear with temps in mid teens to start, warmed fairly quickly despite constant North winds ranging 20-40mph throughout day. Intense solar.

Snowpack

SPX: variety of perfect corn, frozen corn, settled powder, shallow windslab and "hot" creamy powder on surface. Observed a recent cornice fall directly adjacent to an old cornice fall on an East face of Scarp Ridge. Windslabs were forming but remained quite shallow and harmless in terrain travelled today. evidence of recent wet loose slides on south facing aspects.

Avalanche

AVx: small isolated windslabs near ridge lines above treeline today on Mount. Emmons south facing bowl.