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Avalanche

(Public) Crested Butte Avalanche Center · Dec 30, 2018 · Gunnison

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Weather

Clear calm, cold strong ridgetop winds

Snowpack

Shallow windslabs or easterly terrain, few inches of new consolidated on southerly with a thin suncrust

Avalanche

Skier was ascending a gulley at 32 degrees and triggered a hard winslab 8 inches max at crown probably 38-40 degrees at steepest. Skier was knocked back maybe 20 feet and lost a pole