Gunnison

Snowpack

Crested Butte Avalanche Center · Mar 8, 2014 · Gunnison

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Weather

WEATHER: Clear, cool, mostly calm winds

Snowpack

SNOWPACK/AVALANCHE OBS: Found about 10cm of low density new snow from yesterday. Lightly slabbed and thickened into 4F hard above treeline in exposed areas. dropped into RL Bowl at 1000 am with clients and found good boot top pow on a supportive crust. Minimal wind loading of Hst found. A few small D1 loose snow point release slides involving just the new snow witnessed on steep SW, N, and NE aspects above TL.