Gunnison

Avalanche

Crested Butte Avalanche Center · Dec 27, 2017 · Gunnison

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Weather

Warm in the morning and cooled off right around noon. SW Winds picked up (Moderate) with periods of blowing snow.

Snowpack

The snowpack on northerly slopes was yelling at us. Lots of collapses and cracking. Some collapses initiated from flats onto North slopes up to 20 meters away. As we transitioned onto more Easterly and Southerly aspects the snowpack quieted down and was generally right side up. HS on Northerly slopes was up to about 90 cm and much shallower on East and South( anywhere from 20-60 cm). Small surface crust developed in the day on East and South faces near and below treeline.

Avalanche

Lots of activity although most were pretty small. Saw multiple (7?) natural soft windslabs on Climax Chutes, Schuylkill, Schuylkill sub peak above Pittsburg, one on SE face of Augusta. All appeared to have slid on interface layer. All were D1. One slide in Redwell (West side) that I did not get a good look at but could've been D2. Most looked like they had slid mid-storm and had filled in again.