Gunnison

Avalanche

Evan Ross · Jan 24, 2021 · Gunnison

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Weather

Overcast. Pulses of snow, ramping up the most in the afternoon. Picked up 3 to 4? of new snow today.

Snowpack

Traveled through lots of terrain, but mostly lower angled slopes. Not much for red flags until we were riding slopes in the low 30-degree range on E, SW and W aspects between 11,000-12,000ft. Farther running shooting cracks in this terrain make it clear that we didn’t want to travel on anything big or much steeper. These slopes were upper BTL and NTL type terrain and didn’t have recent wind-loading.

Avalanche

1 small storm slab from Saturday 1/24. North aspect at 10,000ft.