Gunnison

Avalanche

Zach Guy · Mar 11, 2016 · Gunnison

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Weather

Weather: Temps reached 50F at 10k and 38F at 12k. Calm to light winds. Few clouds built to scattered thin by late afternoon.

Snowpack

Snowpack: 3/6 crust remained frozen and supportive, but top 6″ thawed and became very wet, with shallow wet loose instabilities developing by 11:30 a.m. on east aspects and rotating around the southern end of the compass. We even observed rollerballs on NE aspect NTL today.

Avalanche

Avalanches: Skier triggered one small loose wet on a steep E aspect ATL. Looked like two D1.5 loose wet were skier triggered on the S face of Mt. Owen. Fairly widespread loose wet activity from yesterday on E, S, W aspects on most steep, rocky slopes N/ATL, D1 in size.