Gunnison

Avalanche

CAIC Staff · Nov 23, 2022 · Gunnison

View on map
Observation photo 1

Weather

Winds and clouds started increasing around noon. No real snow transport, just some facets rolling and bouncing along the snow surface.

Snowpack

Got one crack in a small hard drift that propagated about 6 feet. Snow surfaces varied from hard drifts to wind crusts to sastrugi to cohesionless ~2 mm facets.

Avalanche

We ski triggered a couple of slow-moving facet sluffs that entrained the top 6” of facets on a sheltered, near treeline slope.