From email: "Saw this very large avalanche on Climax. The crown looks fresh, so it likely occurred the day or night of 4/1?
Hard to tell but the crown looks to be about 4-6’ deep at its deepest. The debris ran to the creek.
E aspect at 10000’." Photo: N Hance
From email: "Saw this very large avalanche on Climax. The crown looks fresh, so it likely occurred the day or night of 4/1?
Hard to tell but the crown looks to be about 4-6’ deep at its deepest. The debris ran to the creek.
E aspect at 10000’." Photo: N Hance
We dug a pit to the ground (260cm) on the west wall in Beehive Basin to target observations for the Deep Slab problem. Attached is a SnowPilot graph of the layers, hardness, and grain identification. We performed a PST but did not get any results on the deeper facet layer, possibly due to the column not being fully isolated in the 260cm pit.
From email: "Observed very limited terrain due to vis. Saw this very large avalanche on Climax. The crown looks fresh, so it likely occurred the day or night of 4/1?
Hard to tell but the crown looks to be about 4-6’ deep at its deepest. The debris ran to the creek.
E aspect at 10000’.
There were also several smaller soft slab avalanches that ran on the lookers right side of Climax.
On 4/1 we had a large collapse on a SE aspect at 9800’ where the MF crust was present under 60cm of new snow.
Winds were L-M with consistent gusts to S on Saturday."
From Email:
"Observed a fresh natural avalanche this afternoon on Woody Ridge. The avalanche occurred on a NW aspect, around 9200' (likely last night). I'd estimate the size to be 1-3' deep, and about 100' wide.
No other avalanche activity observed today. (ski tour up Republic Creek this morning, low visibility while I was up there).
No collapsing. Minor cracking of the fresh, dense wind drifts, though they felt quite stubborn.
New snow: about 10", dense/ rimed forms."
From email: "Saw this recent crown while xc skiing out above Mill Creek today. It's on the east-southeast aspect of Peak 10526 east of Emigrant Peak at ~10,200'. In what I like to call the Arrastra Ridge Avalanche Observatory Plot*. The photo is taken approximately 5 miles in line of sight from the crown. It is roughly 1000' wide. If I had to guess, the crown is 10'+ tall—definitely a very destructive avalanche. I won't venture a guess on the rating. I'd bet good money it ran all the way to the lake at the head of Burnt Creek and rearranged some timber.
*If one wanted to create a laboratory for observing large, regularly occurring naturally triggered avalanches, this would be one of the best locations in SW MT."
A group of skiers saw a natural avalanche on an east, facing slope off of Naya Nuki Mountain in the Bridger range. It likely avalanche early in the morning on April 2.
From IG: A group of riders reported seeing three new natural avalanches on April 1.
From IG: “North meadow creek tobacco roots today“
