Gunnison

Avalanche

Crested Butte Avalanche Center · Feb 20, 2017 · Gunnison

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Weather

Weather: Sunny, light winds out of the west.

Snowpack

Snowpack: No obvious signs of instabilities on the hike up. Noticed some point releases that had run yesterday, all start zones were from under cliff bands

Avalanche

Avalanches: SS-ASr-R2-D2-I. A Group of four skiers to our left, remotely triggered a slide from about ~100′ away. Slide was triggered from ridge top. Slide propagated within a large wind roll, proceeded to run ~1,500′.