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Snowpack

(Public)Crested Butte Avalanche Center · Jan 11, 2019 · Gunnison

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Weather

Obscured skies morphed into broken skies. Temperatures warmed up to around freezing. Light winds and one burst of moderate wind that blew snow up on the road for a minute or two.

Snowpack

Less than 2 inches of new snow, closer to one inch. No cracking or collapsing observed on filled in skin tracks or newly formed skin tracks. Disclaimer: These are very hasty tests with non standardized column dimensions. Performed dirty hand tests: 2 on SE Slope were within CT10-15 with Q3 shears. Both were very sluggish on buried surface hoar (?) about 8 to 12 inches below snow surface. (skin track in trees below the RMBL weather station). 1 on W/SW aspect had CTN. Did find a 1F crust below 12 inches of F hardness snow. (road cut above the RMBL weather station.