Aspen
SnowpackBen Pritchett · Apr 19, 2024 · Gunnison
Weather
Cloudy, warm, windy, with scattered mixed (snow/rain) precipitation.
Snowpack
Maturing spring snowpack. Sticky white snow sheets easily off the dusty crust in the upper snowpack. Crusts stayed strong and intact all day near and above treeline. Minor drifting above 12,500' on a few peaks, but inefficient loading made only spotty drifts. The drifts added volume for future wet snow concerns but did not build a new Wind Slab problem.