Observed Deep Slab avalanche on the Shoulder of Republic Mountain today. Went to ground runout/could see dirt throughout runout.
We were descending through the the trees off bacon rind when we skied upon a natural avalanche that appeared to be from today. The slide began at the top of a small clearing in the woods and went down through the trees below. However, we could not see how far down it went. The crown was roughly 3-4 feet deep and propagated about a hundred feet or so. This was on the eastern facing aspect of bacon rind just south of the normal ascent trail.
Two remote triggers from about 250ft away on a slope up lulu pass. A lot new snow and everything was sliding above 30 degrees.
Multiple avalanches on Rasta Chutes on Scotch Bonnet. Did not run full path but probably 3/4 at least. Crowns were 2-4’. Debris pile by the up track to tregencic was probably 6-8’ deep.
East Henderson had also slid near Fisher peak. Vis did not allow for photos.
Riders were getting collapsing and cracking in low angle trees on East Henderson.
New snow was 2-3’ deep
The sky’s broke for about three minutes today and I was able to get a look at the back north facing wall in the divide basin up the main fork of hyalite and it finally shed some of its layers.
the slide propagated the length between the two peaks in the photo
submitted a snow pit on snow-pilot for yesterday 01032024. image attached.
From a phone call:
A rider saw a large avalanche in one of the bowls around the corner of Lionhead avalanched. It likely occurred on Friday, March 1. There were holes dug in the snow indicating a buried person or sled. This is the same slope that killed a 19 year old from MN on December 28, 2006. They conducted a beacon search on the debris to make sure no one was buried.
From a phone call:
A rider saw a large avalanche in one of the bowls around the corner of Lionhead avalanched. It likely occurred on Friday, March 1. There were holes dug in the snow indicating a buried person or sled. This is the same slope that killed a 19 year old from MN on December 28, 2006. They conducted a beacon search on the debris to make sure no one was buried.
From a phone call:
A rider saw a large avalanche in one of the bowls around the corner of Lionhead avalanched. It likely occurred on Friday, March 1. There were holes dug in the snow indicating a buried person or sled. This is the same slope that killed a 19 year old from MN on December 28, 2006. They conducted a beacon search on the debris to make sure no one was buried.
From a phone call:
A rider saw a large avalanche in one of the bowls around the corner of Lionhead avalanched. It likely occurred on Friday, March 1. There were holes dug in the snow indicating a buried person or sled. This is the same slope that killed a 19 year old from MN on December 28, 2006. They conducted a beacon search on the debris to make sure no one was buried.
