Gunnison

Avalanche

CBAC Staff · Mar 23, 2022 · Gunnison

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Weather

Windy is an understatement. Impressive amount of blowing snow off of all peaks. Some plumes were blowing towards the southeast (White), some were blowing towards the southwest (Axtell, Bellview) and anything in between.

Snowpack

Seemed like a lot of ablating snow more than loading. Little eddies and concave features were getting drifted in with 3? to 6? of slabby snow. Abrupt road cuts had 12? to 18? localized drifts behind them.

Avalanche

A D1, presumably windslab, ran this afternoon out of M Face on Whetstone.