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Snowpack

Crested Butte Avalanche Center · Jan 31, 2015 · Gunnison

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Weather

WEATHER: Snowfall-S1. There was 1.5 cm of new snowfall. Calm. Temperature felt as if it hovered around 0 degrees Centigrade.

Snowpack

SNOWPACK: Storm snow: 2.5 to 7.5 cm. At Reno Divide, observed 10 cm wind slabs. Did about 5 test ski cuts: BTL-localized cracking and collapsing between 10 and 25 cm.. NTL- collapsing up to 10 cm. Sun crust at bottom of layers, where collapsing occurred. Snow was wet BTL