19-20

From obs: "Took a tour down the ridge dividing Truman and Jones creek Sunday.Snow varied from 12 inches of facets topped with a crust to big solid wind deposits sitting on basal facets to 2 feet of fist and 4 finger snow over a 1 finger crust over more facets. Quite a bit of cracking and whoomphing on westerly and wnw aspects. I avoided the large paths altogether and stayed on the ridge."

Snowmobiler triggered avalanche near Reas Peak on Sunday, 1/19/20. he was able to ride through it uphill.

I was on the west side of Pioneer Mtn digging a pit for YC Ski Patrol. I heard a few groups of snowmobiles cruising around the foothills of cedar. I turned and saw two snowmobilers cresting the ridge above the slide pictured as the debris was settling down. The sledders enjoyed the view for a few minutes before turning back the way they came and stumbled upon the slide they had unknowingly triggered. They skirted around the side of the crown and stopped for a few minutes. Based on the height of the rider off his sled, I would estimate the crown to be roughly 10’ at its max height. NE aspect below Cedar

"A south and southeast aspect of Mt. Wolverine around 9,500'-10,000'.  I'd estimate the lower crown to be about 3' deep.  And timing of the event maybe around Jan. 16.?" Photo: B. Fredlund

Skied a lap at 44.96854,-111.272761. Two big collapses on the skin back up, and frequent shooting cracks. We were very glad to be skiing low angles.

A skier was skinning uphill, breaking trail and triggered this avalanche on 1/19/20. They reported, " released a small pocket near texas meadow. Maybe 50 ft wide, 2 ft crown and ran 150 ft....I was not caught and nobody was buried or injured. I was skinning up at about 1130...I got to where it was steeper and as I reached thinner snow near rocks I felt a whump. I took one more step and the pocket released."