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Avalanche

(Public) Crested Butte Avalanche Center · Jan 3, 2022 · Gunnison

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Weather

Clear and calm.

Snowpack

60-130 cm. Deeper in some windloaded spots. Largely supportive. 6-8? ski pen. A few lower elevation, northfacing spots with shallower snowpack have lost supportiveness over the last couple days. Got one collapse on low angle windloaded NW terrain @ treeline (big pillows behind tree fence on ridgtop). Lots of surface hoar on north facing terrain.

Avalanche

Cornice failure or small windslabs on N-NE terrain just below ridgetops. Didn’t seem like it stepped down into deeper layers, or maybe it happened early enough in storm to bury the evidence?