Gunnison
AvalancheZach Guy · Mar 3, 2016 · Gunnison
Weather
Warm temps. Light westerly winds. Thin few clouds this morning increased to thin overcast by late afternoon.
Snowpack
W/NW slopes near treeline were all weak facets, ski pen occasionally to the ground. Thin, unsupportive melt-freeze crusts emerged on due west NTL. Surfaces are variable above treeline; lots of pencil or knife hard wind board, some soft sastrugi, meltfreeze crusts starting on W aspects and becoming thicker towards SW. Very small surface facets above these surfaces on northerly tilts. A lot of NW facing slopes ATL are blown out to dirt. I jumped onto a SW slope below treeline in the afternoon. The top few inches were very wet, but the snowpack was still supportive. No signs of instability.
Avalanche
No recent avalanche activity observed. Plenty of crowns from Feb 1 cycle still visible, and a handful of old wet loose, some reaching D2 in size that gouged to the ground, from our mid-February warm-up on southerly aspects N/BTL above Copper Creek. One D1 wind slab on a crossloaded N aspect above treeline on White Rock that probably ran around 2/23.