Gunnison

Avalanche

Zach Guy · Dec 21, 2020 · Gunnison

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Weather

Clear and warm

Snowpack

Several rumbling collapses throughout the tour. A 30 degree, east facing test slope, at 10,300ft, also produced shooting cracks throughout the slope.

Avalanche

Looked at the crown of a remotely triggered slab in Red Lady from earlier today (SS-ASr-R1-D1.5-O) on an east-southeast aspect ATL. The slab was 40 cm thick and failed on faceted snow between two thin crusts (12/10 interface). It appears as if the avalanche sympathetically released a smaller slide (D1) a few hundred feet away on an east aspect.