Gunnison
AvalanchePublic Public · Feb 22, 2022 · Gunnison
Weather
20 degrees, hazy sun barely poking out of thin clouds
Snowpack
6-8 inches new snow, turned wet and heavy
Avalanche
Noticed ski tracks on NE facing glades (about a mile out) and saw that skiers had traveled safely back on road. I xc skied with dog about 1.5 miles and noticed a slide directly above the road, large shooting cracks (see pic 1) taken at 1:42pm. I took some pics and turned around. On way back for the next 1/2 mile I noticed several more slides which had just occurred. I may have unknowingly triggered some of them or they naturally slid and I have impeccable timing. Some slides ran to the road over my ski tracks, about a foot or two deep. Avalanches occurred between 1:30-1:45 The sizes of each avalanche varied. Biggest might have run about a 100ft wide. Probably biggest vertical run was about 100 feet as well. I noticed lots of shooting cracks from road and from around each avalanche. Crowns maybe a foot deep. Might have buried a dog, knocked a skier down or into trees. Skiers had just skied out of popular snodgrass exit onto Gothic Road, probably no more than an hour prior to me getting there. I broke trail on the road at that point and around next bend is where I witnessed 1st avalanche. I saw at least 3-4 more avalanches uphill from the road throughout the glade areas. I may have remotely triggered but the bits of sun did heat up the snowpack too.