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Avalanche

(public) Crested Butte Avalanche Center · Jan 19, 2019 · Gunnison

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Weather

Clear and relatively calm up high. Winds felt 15-20 mph at most, leading to some transport. It looked like winds were howling on a few nearby peaks.

Snowpack

No signs of instability noticed while skiing some nice low angle pow

Avalanche

Natural Avalanches in Redwell in steep N facing terrain, and fairly certain one slid on a NE aspect in the morning of the 19th between 8 and 10 a.m. All d1 to 1.5 appearing to fail in storm snow. Also several slides of a similar size on E and SE further down the basin. Large avalanche over on the Ruby/Owen saddle.