Gunnison

Snowpack

Crested Butte Avalanche Center · Jan 25, 2013 · Gunnison

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Weather

Weather: Obscured, misty, light snow, warm and humid, no wind. Mist and rain changed to all snow by midday.

Snowpack

Snowpack: Found an eggshell thick rain/rime crust on the snow surface up to 10,500' on a NE aspect. Upper snowpack consisted of 4F+/1F- hard consolidated slab 15cm thick resting above an entire snowpack of facets. No instabilities found on slopes up to 35*. Slopes >35* still producing full-depth facet sluffs. Ski pen 10-30cm...boot pen full depth.