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Avalanche

(Public) Crested Butte Avalanche Center · Jan 15, 2021 · Gunnison

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Weather

Weather: windy. Still very windy.

Snowpack

Snowpack: we had the opportunity to sample a variety of snow conditions. Breaker windboard, supportive windboard, impenetrable windboard, breaker sastrugi, impenetrable sastrugi, wind stiffened, and even some merely wind affected in the most protected trees left of friendly.

Avalanche

Avalanches: one small wind slab in 1/2 bowl of axtell, see photo. Some cracking on the ridge approaching top of AMR, see photo, and one settlement on the ridge as well.