Gunnison

Snowpack

Crested Butte Avalanche Center · Feb 3, 2014 · Gunnison

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Weather

Overcast and snowing S1 through most of the day with a little breakup in the clouds and the snow ending around 2pm. Calm winds BTL. NTL ridge, light SW winds were just strong enough to roll loose snow onto lee aspects. Spent about 15min in this spot and our skin track had been filled back in.

Snowpack

4 inches of upper fluff had fallen on yesterdays thin sun crust at 2pm. This thin crust was found on BTL slopes that had a little more SW tilt to them. HS in Coon Glade around 11,000ft was averaging 160 to 180cm. No collapsing on SE 30* terrain.