Natural wet avalanches in Pine Creek, Livingston

Pine Creek
Out of Advisory Area
Code
WL-Nu
Latitude
45.49040
Longitude
-110.48500
Notes

My partner and I were snowshoeing to Pine Creek Lake on Saturday 3/7 when we came across a large amount of avalanche debris piled up in the creek bed/gully of the north fork of Pine Creek. The toe of the debris started approximately right where the normal summer trail crosses the Pine Creek, and ran for probably a couple hundred feet up the creek bed. As we paralleled the creek on the south side, we could eventually see where it looked like the avalanche started, far up on the ridge to the north of the creek, at least another 1000 feet above. The debris looked fresh and very chunky/wet. That Saturday was very warm and sunny. We experienced a few small whumphs/collapses as we hiked up the south side of the creek. We ran into a couple other parties of skiers, but none of them commented on any other particular instabilities higher up towards Black Mtn.

Number of slides
1
Number caught
0
Number buried
0
Avalanche Type
Wet loose-snow avalanche
Trigger
Natural trigger
Trigger Modifier
u-An unintentional release
Problem Type
Wet Snow
Slab Thickness units
centimeters
Single / Multiple / Red Flag
Single Avalanche
Advisory Year