Gunnison

Avalanche

Crested Butte Avalanche Center · Jan 24, 2016 · Gunnison

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Weather

Mixed bag of weather: At Trailhead, S2 snowfall but snow stopped very quickly. Mostly cloudy at the rollers with intermittent periods of S-1 to S1. One 15 minute period of light winds with no wind transport. On hike out along Slate River, again hit a short spell of S1 with snow falling sideways. Snow on ground was not being transported.

Snowpack

Appeared to be less than 1cm of graupel on entire skin track leading from Poverty Gulch Bridge to top of rollers. Ski pole test showed up to 105 cm of snow from last weeks storms.

Avalanche

No cracking, whumping, or collapsing on skin track or on ski down.