Gunnison

A couple small, loose dry avalanches on the steepest features in this area.

About 6 inches of new snow at treeline. Occasionally gusty winds transporting snow in open areas. cloud cover: overcast; wind loading: light; recent snowfall (cm): 15; snow avail for transport: small smounts

Storm totals around 6 inches at 1 pm near treeline.  There is lower-density snow near the crust interface with denser snow above, including a graupel layer at the surface.  I didn't encounter any significant wind loading in this terrain, but leeward features were top-heavy and produced short cracks.  Today's easy sluffing on steep features could produce shallow soft slabs with more snowfall, or wind slab issues on well-drifted features at higher elevations. On features steeper than 40 degrees, it was easy to produce loose avalanches in the new snow. I hunted for drifted features in this near treeline zone and only produced short running cracks.