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Quick reportEric Murrow & Brie Yost · Apr 3, 2026 · Gunnison
Weather
Northwest winds transported snow in the AM. Wind speeds decreased and easily transportable snow diminished. Thursday nights storm produced ~3 inches. Storm totals since Tuesday reached up to two feet near 12000 feet and around 8 inches at 9,600 feet. cloud cover: scattered; wind loading: previous; recent snowfall (cm): 65; snow avail for transport: moderate amounts
Snowpack
Storm totals since Tuesday slightly exceed two feet in this area at treeline. Warm temperatures and sunshine on Thursday formed a soft 1-2cm crust on southerly aspects, with a few inches of snow above from Thursday night. Solar aspects became slightly moist around midday. We crossed a handful of recently drifted features without result. Several ECT's did not produce propagating results. ECTN's in this week's storm snow broke only a shovel width on storm density changes, but did not appear problematic. In each spot I looked, this week's storm snow was well-bonded to the crust below. Minor cracking was found a few inches deep in last night's wind-drifted snow. No significant signs of instability underfoot. Minor cracking of a few feet in drifted snow from Thursday night.