Details

• Date: 2020/02/17

• Observer: Eric Murrow
• Organization: CBAC

Location

• BC Zone: Gunnison
• Area Description: Crested Butte area avalanche obs from roadways

Weather

• Weather Description: Partly to mostly cloudy skies around town. Wind transported snow was visible for much of the day on nearby peaks – the loading appeared fairly efficient onto east-facing alpine terrain.

Avalanches

• Avalanche Description: Took a drive around the area to look for fresh natural avalanche activity. Observed several obvious and widely propagating avalanches. Visibility was obscured for parts of the range but there appeared to be a few smaller natural Wind Slabs that I was unable to fully confirm on drifted upper elevation terrain.

	Date	Location/Path	#	Elev	Asp	Type	Trig	SizeR	SizeD
	2020/02/17  †	Gothic	2	>TL	S	HS	N	R2	D3
Date: 2020/02/17 (Estimated) Observer: Eric Murrow Organization: CBAC Area Description: Red Ridge - two different widely failing avalanches on cross-loaded southerly features Landmark: Gothic Comments: One debris pile was very fresh, the other was clearly blown over.
	2020/02/17  †	Mount Emmons	1	<TL	NE	SS	N	R1	D1.5
Date: 2020/02/17 (Estimated) Observer: Eric Murrow Organization: CBAC Area Description: Happy Chutes area - shallow storm slab stepped down midpath to older weak layers Landmark: Mount Emmons
	2020/02/17  †	Ruby Range	1	TL	NE	HS	N	R2	D2.5
Date: 2020/02/17 (Estimated) Observer: Eric Murrow Organization: CBAC Area Description: Peeler peak Landmark: Ruby Range Comments: 3rd time this winter this path has run- following a very similar pattern with crown lines. Part of crown was obscured by other terrain so uncertain how far in propagated

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