Gunnison

Avalanche

Eric Murrow · Jan 18, 2019 · Gunnison

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Weather

Mostly cloudy skies with light winds at valley bottom.

Snowpack

Shallow, weak, and tender.

Avalanche

Heard of an avlanche that ran and may have damaged a power line that supplies Cement Creek. Slide path released at 10,500 and ran to 9,400', faces mostly E with a bit of North in places. Impressive propagation with 700 linear feet of summer road covered with debris up to an estimate 10+ feet in places. Debris ran up an opposing hillside and likely triggered a slide on opposing SW hillside.