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Avalanche

Crested Butte Avalanche Center · Feb 13, 2017 · Gunnison

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Weather

Weather: Obscured skies and mostly calm transitioning to S-1 with calm winds and slowly dropping temperatures.

Snowpack

Snowpack: 4 inches of new dense snow in the last 24 hours.

Avalanche

Avalanches: On south slope around 35 degrees, triggered a shallow wet slough, that traveled about 150 feet. Must have been slow moving as observed it on second lap. Slope position was an inflection point between concave and convex.