Gunnison

Avalanche

Zach Guy · Jan 6, 2015 · Gunnison

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Weather

Light westerly winds. WARM. High of 40F at 10,000 ft. Few clouds.

Snowpack

New surface hoar layer, preserved on low angle slopes that didn’t get cooked by the sun. Snowpack became moist with lots of rollerballs on SE to S to W aspects on near treeline slopes, and S aspects above treeline.

Avalanche

2 Natural windslabs in the past couple days, one off of the east face of Owen, one off of a Northeast couloir on Scarp’s Ridge, ATL slopes. Both looked to be about a foot deep, relatively small, less than 40 feet wide. (SS-N-R1-D1-I). Over a dozen wet loose avalanches on south aspects near treeline in Peeler and Robinson Basin, D1 to D1.5 in size. Some of these showed some horizontal propagation as they ran. WL-N-R1-D1/1.5-S. One of these wet loose triggered a larger slab, estimated about 2 feet deep on the Dec 13th crust. SS-NL-R2-D2-O.