Gunnison

Avalanche

Zach Guy · Feb 6, 2022 · Gunnison

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Weather

Mostly clear this afternoon. Calm winds where we traveled.

Snowpack

The January snowfall is easily to sluff, roughly 6? of fist hard facets. The December slab remains intact enough to prevent gouging, about 4F and faceting at the top of the slab.

Avalanche

Ski cut a few long-running loose dry avalanches in Climax Chutes entraining the top 6? or so of weak facets with no gouging observed. A few of the sluffs ran past the chokes to the top of the aprons, up to 2000 vertical feet, D1 to D1.5 in size. Another group behind us had similar results in the same chute.