Gunnison

Snowpack

Crested Butte Avalanche Center · Dec 4, 2013 · Gunnison

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Weather

ttach File: Weather- full sky cover, constant west wind around 10-15 mph on ridge tops gust around 25, very little snow transport (most windward slopes were already bare) , no precip, done skiing by 8:00 am.

Snowpack

No signs of instability in the very well used skin track. New snow will be falling on a mix of 3-5mm tall surface hoar crystals, 1-4cm thick solar crusts, and surface facets at lower to mid elevations, and pencil hard wind-board and sastrugi at upper elevations.