Gunnison

Snowpack

Zach Guy and Eric Murrow · Dec 12, 2025 · Gunnison

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Weather

air temp (F): Unseasonably warm; cloud cover: few; wind loading: none; recent snowfall (cm): 0

Snowpack

There's still enough slab strength (some 4F) to keep ski pen from sinking to the ground, and facet sluffs aren't an issue yet.  We produced a mix of ECTN and ECTP results below 45 cm slabs.  Snow surfaces remained dry on E and NE aspects, and were wet on southerlies.  4-7 mm surface hoar was widespread on the aspects that stayed dry.  . We produced 3 or 4 collapses that would radiate up to 30 feet (about halfway across the small slopes we were on). These failed about 18" deep on our November facet layer.