Gunnison

Avalanche

Crested Butte Avalanche Center · Dec 22, 2015 · Gunnison

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Snowpack

West: Generally soft and un-cohesive new snow just slightly slabbed up with good cracking in the top 20cm’s on handshots in the morning. After lunch, snow intensified and a route in Sunset on UWW produced three slides, one on each of the steeper features, all in previously lightly or un-travelled terrain “backcountry-like” snowpack. Not many large collapses, or cracking, just isolated explosive results (2 avalanches, and one ski cut triggered slide that propagated 50ft above cut.

Avalanche

(3) D1-D2 slides triggered this afternoon. SS-ASu-R2-D1-O SS-AE-R3-D2-O SS-AE-R2-D1.5-O all on novemeber basal facets. slab 1F in places, F-Hardness on upper half