Gunnison

We saw no fresh avalanches, but we saw several older Wet Slab avalanches in the Taylor Park area a handful of D3 avalanches in the Elk Range northwest of Taylor Pass.

Warm, breezy, and clear.

We experienced minor cracking on forested, shady east and northeast-facing roadbanks in Tellurium Creek above 11,000 feet, but saw cracking no where else on our tour. Throughout the day we found a very simple snowpack structure with a single slab over depth hoar grains, or melted-out versions of that same set up. The deep areas were close to 3 feet deep. In most places the frozen ice lenses in the upper snowpack made the slab strong enough to marginally hold a snowmobile. Thinner snowpack areas were melted out or melted down to a thin stack of crusts on the ground. Surprisingly we were able to drive to the turnoff for Pieplant.