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Zach Guy, Brie Yost, and Evan Ross · Feb 18, 2026 · Gunnison

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Weather

40 to 50 cm of new snow, periods of intense transport in wind exposed areas. cloud cover: overcast; wind loading: intense; rain elevation (ft): Nope; recent snowfall (cm): 40 to 50; snow avail for transport: large amounts

Snowpack

Collapses typically required a soft stomp and almost always resulted in a remote trigger as we walked across the top of easterly facing start zones.

Avalanche

Frequent remote triggers while skinning above a steep east facing ridge. Some broke on near surface facets above the crusty storm interface (typically 45 cm deep). Some broke on the February 11 interface, about 60 to 70 cm deep. The terrain features we targeted were relatively small, so sizes were typically D1.5 or D2, and would have been larger in bigger terrain. For the record, Brie and Zach triggered more avalanches than Evan, so we are renaming the basin after ourselves.