Gunnison

Avalanche

Crested Butte Avalanche Center · Jan 22, 2017 · Gunnison

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Weather

Weather: Clear skies and calm transitioned to scattered skies and calm. Temperature fell a little bit. This all occurred before 1PM.

Snowpack

Snowpack: Above the caves, west facing slopes had about 5 inches of fist hardness. No change in the snow while touring. SW and S facing slopes developed a sun crust pretty quick this morning. On a south west facing aspect, found one area near the aspen/blue spruce transition, where there was a 2 inch sun crust overlying 3 inches of fist hardness snow on top of another sun crust.

Avalanche

Avalanches: just a few pin wheels off the skin tracks.