Gunnison

No recent activity observed. Noted a few undocumented natural avalanches from the 12/27 storm.

Unseasonably warm, a few thin clouds. cloud cover: few; wind loading: none; recent snowfall (cm): 0; snow avail for transport: small smounts

Snow surface observations: BTL northerlies:  A few inches of weak, small-grained facets (<1mm) above mostly supportive, occasionally breakable rain crusts.  This snow surface is noticeably weak and sluffed easily in steep terrain.  NTL northerlies:  Typically small-grained (~2 to 3mm) surface hoar above settled powder with some minor faceting.   ATL northerlies: Settled powder with some minor faceting and some wind-hardened snow; no obvious surface hoar was observed.   Southerlies: Moist and wet snow that will form melt-freeze crusts by tomorrow.  . We got a couple of collapses on E to NE aspects near treeline that only radiated 15 to 20 feet. They failed about 10" deep on the December dryspell layer. A stability test adjacent to one of the collapses produced ECTP1 results.