Gunnison

Snowpack

Ian Havlick · Dec 4, 2015 · Gunnison

View on map

Weather

Increasing g clouds throughout day, no wind and fairly pleasant temps even in shade.

Snowpack

HS ranged between 45-65cm on tour toward Green Lake. Lots of pits and ECT showed no propagation potential and lots of slabs breaking apart during moderate and hard loading steps. Most concerning could be new thanksgiving snow (10cm) which are stiff wind crusts with abrupt soft/faceted snow below. Wind crust could be stiff enough to carry large load (1.5" swe) but any slide seems that it would scour to ground with so much weak (2-4mm) depth hoar/facets.