Gunnison
AvalancheIan Havlick · Feb 14, 2020 · Gunnison
Weather
Full storm conditions with S2 snowfall this morning and 20-30mph winds, cold, single digit temperatures all day. Overcast skies trended to partly cloudy skies after 1500. No significant solar impacts today. 5" storm total, .45" SWE
Snowpack
Many minor windslabs ski cut in primarily west facing cross loaded terrain with largest slabs in west facing, near treeline. Ventured into west facing alpine, but was largely getting stripped by westerly winds straight up and over the terrain. East and south facing terrain really was not accumulating much reactive windslabs, as we monitored throughout the day. Found very weak crust facet combination on south facing near treeline behaving very oddly producing widespread collapsing and shooting cracks in terrain we have not trafficked this year. One collapse remotely triggered a very small storm/windslab pocket uphill from us.
Avalanche
multiple D1 windslabs in UWW terrain. Otherwise, no explosive testing in any terrain due to low visibility. Observed D2 windslabs in east facing alpine terrain on Ruby late in day.