Gunnison

Snowpack

Colorado BC AIARE L1 · Dec 24, 2019 · Gunnison

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Weather

Overcast sky, calm winds, high temperature near freezing.

Snowpack

Shallow snowpack about 60-80cm deep. Soft weak snow surface, over a mid-pack slab, over more very weak faceted snow at the ground. No obvious signs of instability. Surface Hoar down in the valley, but not up higher in the bowl. The wind had previously loaded snow over the ridge and into the ENE bowl. While down-valley winds had previously cross-loaded a few terrains features a lower elevations. Wall to wall tracks in the terrain, also covering the steeper or loaded terrain features.