Gunnison

Snowpack

Josh Hirshberg · Dec 31, 2012 · Gunnison

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Weather

Scattered thin clouds. Intermittent light snow S-1. Moderate Solar radiation. Calm winds below TL. At 13:00 on Coon Summit @ 12,000ft NW winds were moderate w/ light windloading. At 14:30 @ 11,500ft Air Temp was -10°C.

Snowpack

Red Coon Glades (S-SE below TL) has an avg HS of 70cm. Only a few isolated areas where I could find a crust in the upper snowpack, but it wasn’t consistent and definitely not noticeable while skiing down. Test results indicate propagation w/ hard/very hard initiation (ECTP very hard, CTH, SC) 12cm off the ground in Dec 3rd facets over November crust (see pit @ SE 11,500ft).