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Cooke City, 2024-07-31 Photos taken 6/10/24 around 1pm. Wet slab in Republic Creek south of Cooke. I estimate 10-20’ deep and 1000’+ wide. The past 5-6 days have been warm, and previous night there was steady rain all night into the mid morning, so not out of the question that it happened within 24 hrs, likely within the last 1-3 days. Link to Avalanche Details |
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Cooke City, 2024-07-31 Photos taken 6/10/24 around 1pm. Wet slab in Republic Creek south of Cooke. I estimate 10-20’ deep and 1000’+ wide. The past 5-6 days have been warm, and previous night there was steady rain all night into the mid morning, so not out of the question that it happened within 24 hrs, likely within the last 1-3 days. GNFAC Link to Avalanche Details |
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Cooke City, 2024-06-04 "At approximately 15:40 a D3 avalanche on the Gardiner headwall broke. It was triggered by a snowboarder and his dog. The run had already been tracked by skis and snow machines but the trigger point was slightly farther skier right and appeared to trigger a convex wind slab. Several skiers, boarders, and riders were in the area but there were no burials or injuries." Photo: C. Cavill Link to Avalanche Details |
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Cooke City, 2024-06-04 "At approximately 15:40 a D3 avalanche on the Gardiner headwall broke. It was triggered by a snowboarder and his dog. The run had already been tracked by skis and snow machines but the trigger point was slightly farther skier right and appeared to trigger a convex wind slab. Several skiers, boarders, and riders were in the area but there were no burials or injuries." Photo: C. Cavill Link to Avalanche Details |
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Cooke City, 2024-05-17 From email 5/16/24: "I saw the photo of the fisher peak avalanche on the website. Figured I could fill in the blanks. Not a natural slide, snowmobile triggered. At approximately 12:15pm last Saturday I was climbing above fisher bench and unintentionally set off a slab avalanche on fisher peak. I was jumping the cornice at the ridge and had a massive slope collapse, followed by shooting cracks and propagation downslope. I was able to wheelie through the crown and sidehill above the slide away from the debris area. 5 minutes before my climb, another snowmobiler put a high mark 60 ft away from where I climbed with no results. There were numerous tracks on the slope prior to this avalanche, I found the weak spot. My riding partner was watching me from a safe zone further south, as we knew there was new snow instabilities to watch out for, at a minimum. We rode all day Friday without any obvious instabilities on similar slopes. We didn’t see the sheep mountain slide Friday morning. I took some pictures of the slide right after it happened. See attached…" Link to Avalanche Details |
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Cooke City, 2024-05-17 From email 5/16/24: "I saw the photo of the fisher peak avalanche on the website. Figured I could fill in the blanks. Not a natural slide, snowmobile triggered. At approximately 12:15pm last Saturday I was climbing above fisher bench and unintentionally set off a slab avalanche on fisher peak. I was jumping the cornice at the ridge and had a massive slope collapse, followed by shooting cracks and propagation downslope. I was able to wheelie through the crown and sidehill above the slide away from the debris area. 5 minutes before my climb, another snowmobiler put a high mark 60 ft away from where I climbed with no results. There were numerous tracks on the slope prior to this avalanche, I found the weak spot. My riding partner was watching me from a safe zone further south, as we knew there was new snow instabilities to watch out for, at a minimum. We rode all day Friday without any obvious instabilities on similar slopes. We didn’t see the sheep mountain slide Friday morning. I took some pictures of the slide right after it happened. See attached…" Link to Avalanche Details |
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Cooke City, 2024-05-13 From obs 5/12/24: "Saw a few slides that look like they propagated across the layer of new snow from the last storm (as opposed to the characteristic spring wet snow point releases). The largest was the previously reported one from Sheep... We also saw a similar slide on a N/NW aspect of Mt Zimmer (pictured). Hard to say from a distance when these broke, but the one on Mt Zimmer looked the most recent." Photo: A. Kautzer |
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Cooke City, 2024-05-13 From obs 5/12/24: "Saw a few slides that look like they propagated across the layer of new snow from the last storm (as opposed to the characteristic spring wet snow point releases). The largest was the previously reported one from Sheep. On the way out we saw a smaller slide farther south along the same ridge that looked like it broke on the new snow interface, both NE aspects (pictured)." Photo: A. Kautzer
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Cooke City, 2024-05-12 From email 5/11/24: “Hey Guys, here are a few photos from the weekend. The sheep Mountain Avalanche was Snowmobile triggered on Friday…” Link to Avalanche Details |
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Cooke City, 2024-05-12 From email 5/11/24: “Hey Guys, here are a few photos from the weekend. … the fisher peak avalanche happened today. Maybe cornice drop?” Link to Avalanche Details |
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Cooke City, 2024-05-10 From IG story 5/8/24: "@mtavalanche remote triggers today in Cooke City. 2-4' of fresh north of round lake." Link to Avalanche Details |
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Cooke City, 2024-05-05 On 5/4/24 Skiers triggered large wet loose slides on the Fin near Cooke City Link to Avalanche Details |
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Cooke City, 2024-05-02 From obs 5/2/24: "Wind load on old crust, probably from Wednesday." Link to Avalanche Details |
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Cooke City, 2024-05-01 From email 5/1/24: "Hi crew. I triggered a soft slab avalanche on the North side of Sheep Mountain today. D1.5 200’ wide ran 200’. Crown was 6-12’’ deep. I was able to ride out of it and anchor in a safe spot. It broke on our 7th lap and we had seen no signs of instability prior to the avalanche but wind loading was occurring and obvious. The avalanche broke and on a dirty crust that formed during a rain event last week." Link to Avalanche Details |
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Cooke City, 2024-04-29 Photos of what appears like a wet slab possibly from Friday (4/26) when the precip. started after the first night or two of poor freeze (Henderson Bench). Photo GNFAC Link to Avalanche Details |
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Cooke City, 2024-04-29 Photos of what appear like wet slabs possibly from Friday (4/26) when the precip. started after the first night or two of poor freeze (North side of Republic near Cooke City). Photo GNFAC Link to Avalanche Details |
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Cooke City, 2024-04-26 On 4/26/24 large natural wet slabs were seen running on Wall Mountain near Silver Gate. An observer from Beartooth Powder Guides sent us a video of them happening at 3pm while it was 43 degrees F. I also noted a similar large crown on the north side of Republic Mtn. that probably also happened this afternoon. Photo: GNFAC Link to Avalanche Details |
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Cooke City, 2024-04-26 On 4/26/24 large natural wet slabs were seen running on Wall Mountain near Silver Gate. An observer from Beartooth Powder Guides sent us a video of them happening at 3pm while it was 43 degrees F. I also noted a similar large crown on the north side of Republic Mtn. that probably also happened this afternoon. Photo: GNFAC Link to Avalanche Details |
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Cooke City, 2024-04-26 On 4/26/24 large natural wet slabs were seen running on Wall Mountain near Silver Gate. An observer from Beartooth Powder Guides sent us a video of them happening at 3pm while it was 43 degrees F. I also noted a similar large crown on the north side of Republic Mtn. that probably also happened this afternoon. Link to Avalanche Details |
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Cooke City, 2024-04-26 On 4/26/24 large natural wet slabs were seen running on Wall Mountain near Silver Gate. An observer from Beartooth Powder Guides sent us a video of them happening at 3pm while it was 43 degrees F. I also noted a similar large crown on the north side of Republic Mtn. that probably also happened this afternoon. Photo: GNFAC Link to Avalanche Details |