Gunnison

Avalanche

Jack Caprio · Jan 29, 2022 · Gunnison

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Weather

Sunny and clear. Calm winds.

Snowpack

NE facing alpine terrain skied great. Recent NE winds blew snow upslope and creating textured “doppel” snow. This terrain did not contain any slab, making the main avalanche problem loose dry sluffs. E and SE alpine slopes have been loaded by recent winds creating isolated pockets of small winds slabs.

Avalanche

1 Skier triggered D1 loose dry avalanche on a NE facing slope which sympathetically triggered a D1 wind slab on a ESE facing slope across the bowl. The wind slab was about 2-6 inches thick and propagated about 25 feet. The avalanches were small in size but ran through the some consequential terrain that would have been undesirable to take a ride in.