Gunnison
AvalancheEvan Zach · Mar 20, 2017 · Gunnison
Weather
Weather: Increasing clouds through out the day, becoming mostly cloudy. Moderate westerly winds at ridgeline.
Snowpack
Snowpack: More variable snow surfaces in the alpine. All forms of wind effect, buffed, scraped or sculpted into ugly things. Sun crusts yep, and even some elusive decomposed soft snow surfaces. On and ENE aspect around 12,600ft the wetting front had only made it down about 15-20cm's with dry snow below. In the afternoon, the surface crusts still broke down on easterly slopes despite the cloudy skis. Northwesterly aspects stayed could with chalky or wind effected snow surfaces.
Avalanche
Avalanches: Most significant wet avalanche observed was a D1.5 starting at about 12,000ft on the south side of Mt Owen. Probably failed around 3/18.