Gunnison

Snowpack

Storm snow of 13" began to consolidate today but and was not pushed around by wind at and below treeline. We didn't observe any slab failures in our terrain; some minor cracking. The faceted snowpack below the new storm snow appears to lack the energy given the current load. A thin suncrust developed on solar aspects today. Sluffing was minimal today. We observed crowns from several R1D1 storm slabs (<15m wide) that pulled out on eastern aspects of Ruby Pk and Mt. Owen.