Gunnison

Avalanche

Zach Guy · Mar 5, 2014 · Gunnison

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Weather

Few clouds, light winds, moderate temps. A couple hours of snow pluming off of Owen, Purple, but most other peaks saw light to no snow transport.

Snowpack

Storm snow 1-4" deep. Most low elevation slopes except due north became moist to wet. High elevation southerlies also got moist. The new snow had minimal wind-affect, some texturing up high but not much loading or stiffening except isolated pockets.

Avalanche

Natural rollerballs and a few small wet sluffs on steep sunbaked slopes. A couple very small natural windslabs and a couple of skier triggered windslabs and sluffs on steep terrain above treeline. 2-4" deep, 10-20 feet wide. Harmless in size.