Gunnison
AvalancheEric Murrow · Jan 4, 2021 · Gunnison
Weather
Mostly clear skies, reasonable air temps, but guessing a fair bit cooler than areas above the inversion.
Snowpack
Very short tour walking about near valley bottom below Climax Chutes at the low end of Slate River Valley. Checked on snowpack where I would expect slabs to facet the quickest on shaded slopes. Ski pen was generally 6 to 8 inches with snowpack depth around 70cm (a bit more than 2 feet). Walked through areas with no previous traffic and only produced one notable collapse but stomped/jumped in many places looking for one. Many slopes in this area had previously cracked/collapsed this past week, likely during the loading event around the 28th or 29th. Slab is soft but still present even in the inversion zone, no propagating test results – see photo (profile location did not show evidence of the previous collapse but ya never know).
Avalanche
Nothing new to report