Gunnison

Avalanche

Crested Butte Avalanche Center · Dec 5, 2016 · Gunnison

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Weather

Weather: Calm, sunny. Intermittent light breeze. Cloud cover and breeze increasing by afternoon.

Snowpack

Snowpack: Uniform below treeline, ski pen 6-8 inches boot pen 16-20 inches. Isolated shallow/soft windslabs above treeline.

Avalanche

Avalanches: Two older natural windslabs off of purple ridge above treeline. Triggered two windslabs on east facing aspects from skin track on ridge by stomping on ridgeline convexities, ran aprox. 50 ft. Triggered longer running windslab by ski cut from highpoint of ridge on more north east facing aspect. Ran approx. 500ft from ridgetop to bench. Quickly dissipated into shallow sluff.