Gunnison

Avalanche

CBAC Forecaster · Feb 26, 2024 · Gunnison

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Weather

Warm windy day, only a few snow flurries during daylight hours. Occasional strong gusts mixing down to below treeline would blow and swirl snow around without active loading anywhere. Above treeline, there was steady flagging throughout the day off of peaks with large fetches. Most of the transport appeared to be blowing off into the atmosphere; I'm sure there was loading happening somewhere though.

Snowpack

A quick crown profile on an east aspect below treeline produced non-propagating results (ECTN26) on the failure layer of the avalanche (2/2 faceted crust), and propagating results on the mid February facets about a foot deep (2/13 facets).

Avalanche

No signs of instability underfoot; one persistent slab avalanche that was probably human-triggered sometime in the past 3 days.