Gunnison

Avalanche

Ben Pritchett · Feb 28, 2020 · Gunnison

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Weather

Cooker afternoon with high thin clouds trapping radiation.

Snowpack

Some shiny-looking areas of saturated snow. Surfaces wetted down to first crust in the upper snowpack on south and southwest facing slopes. It became easy to pull about 2" of wet snow on the crust, which corresponded to the few shallow Loose Wet avalanches observed. Sunny side of east and due west became crusted, but could not pull loose wet with hand tests on steep slopes.

Avalanche

Very minor natural Loose Wet activity. Not a shed cycle.