Gunnison
AvalancheCBAC Staff · Apr 4, 2022 · Gunnison
Weather
Scattered cloud cover this morning gave way to few clouds by mid day. Cool temps and light ridgetop winds at noon.
Snowpack
No signs of instability on steep terrain. The recent snow, up 4? to 6? here, was redistributed by winds at higher elevations with localized drifts up to a foot thick that were unreactive to ski cuts. The snow is transitioning to almost-corn on south aspects and still dry powder on north. There was a dusting of snow yesterday that accumulated on melt-freeze crusts. That low density snow is starting to facet above the crust, but it was also getting cooked on sunny aspects.
Avalanche
Nothing new. A handful of small wind slabs and wet loose avalanches from last week, along with a number of previously undocumented large wet avalanches from the big warmup in late March, both wet slabs and gouging wet loose, D1.5-D2 in size.