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Snowpack

Crested Butte Avalanche Center · Mar 15, 2013 · Gunnison

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Weather

Warm, high thin clouds, cold and moderately gusty winds above treeline from NW

Snowpack

stout melt-freeze crust encountered on all slopes in am, but with a poor freeze. Top 15cm frozen; then mostly all unconsolidated wet grains found below. At times on ascent, boot pen was full depth through wet faceted grains underlying MF crust on top. By 10:30 E/SE solar aspects at 12,000' were unsupportive.