Snowpack

Gunnison

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Weather

30 degrees, light wind and moderate to heavy snow out of the east at 8am, shifting to heavy snow out of the NW w/ increasing NW winds up to 20+mph above tree line @ 10am;; also noted temp. drop of appx 5 degrees w wind shift

Snowpack

deep, large grain saturated facets below supportive 4" freeze crust and 4-6" of light, new snow; the snow from the event friday morning was not present below last nights snow; hard frozen corn to the ground above treeline; skied 6" of light storm snow with no signifcant sloughing or cracking