Gunnison

Snowpack

Lower Brush Creek and lower Cement Creek is often characterized as being located within the “donut hole” portion of our greater forecast areas. This donut hole holds the least amount of snow when compared to the surrounding mountains. Anyway, this is of course the case right now. Above treeline, old snow does exist around the compass. Though the southern half of the compass has spotty snow coverage on those slopes located closer to town and not as deep into the mountains. Near treeline has old snow coverage on NW to NE. While W and E have some coverage but are fairly shallow and rough. Below treeline, there is really just the northern quadrant to talk about for snow coverage. Even on north, the snow coverage is of course shallow, and often rough. The camera is good a picking up “white” and “dark” colors but not so good at highlighting the finer details from afar. There is also a little bit of fresh snow in these photos and adding some white to non-problematic slopes.