Photos
Southern Madison, 2024-01-11 A rider triggered avalanche on a small slope. This was triggered from the flats 10-40' away. Photo: GNFAC Link to Avalanche Details |
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Southern Madison, 2024-01-11 A rider triggered avalanche that happened on Jan. 10th. This was a small slope but broke 1' deep and is the width of the terrain feature. Photo: GNFAC Link to Avalanche Details |
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Southern Madison, 2024-01-11 Ian Hoyer assessing the crown of an avalanche that was triggered from flats above while on foot. Photo: GNFAC Link to Avalanche Details |
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Southern Madison, 2024-01-11 A 12" crown of an avalanche that was triggered from the flats above. Photo: GNFAC Link to Avalanche Details |
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Southern Madison, 2024-01-11 The crown of a remotely triggered avalanche in Sunlight Basin. Photo: GNFAC Link to Avalanche Details |
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Southern Madison, 2024-01-11 Remotely triggered avalanche in Sunlight Basin while walking along a flat ridge. Photo: GNFAC Link to Avalanche Details |
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Southern Gallatin, 2024-01-11 Cracking at Fawn Pass this was accompanied by multiple collapses during the tour. Photo: S. Reinsel Link to Avalanche Details |
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Northern Madison, 2024-01-11 Our lower ridge has not been controlled or touched yet this year so very indicative the backcountry snowpack. It released sometime before the morning of Jan 10. Photo: YCSP Link to Avalanche Details |
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Northern Gallatin, 2024-01-10 From Obs: "While skiing one of our intended slopes, one of my partners skied over a small rollover and as he arrived at the bottom of the small slope a pocket had released above him and stopped just above where he was standing. The culprit was again the recent snow on top of older faceted snow." Photo: Anonymous Link to Avalanche Details |
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Northern Gallatin, 2024-01-10 Wind loaded gully above Crypt Orchid in Hyalite. Photo: T Hughes Link to Avalanche Details |
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Northern Madison, 2024-01-10 We then dug on a east-facing slope to the north of the Beehive/Bear cornices and found 105 cm of snow and a 1 foot deep slab that broke in our test as an ECTP3. Low test scores, recent avalanche activity and cracking and collapsing was evidence of the snowpack's instability. Photo: GNFAC
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Northern Madison, 2024-01-10 We toured up Tyler's Slope and dug at 9,200' on an west-facing slope. There was a 6" slab of snow sitting on fist hardness facets that propagated in our tests (ECTPV x2). Approaching the pit site we has some collapsing and shooting cracks. Photo: GNFAC
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Northern Madison, 2024-01-10 Cornices on the ridge had all broken and pulled out the wind-loaded pockets with one slope sliding 100' distance. These likely occurred last night (1/09/24). Photo: GNFAC Link to Avalanche Details |
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Northern Gallatin, 2024-01-09 Seen on a ski tour on 1/08. From Obs: Notice a few natural avalanches and one skier triggered avalanche near of the top of Blackmore. Looked as though it was a ski cut that popped the slab. Photo: S. Lowe Link to Avalanche Details |
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Lionhead Range, 2024-01-09 Cornices easily broke while walking near them and avalanched onto the slope below. The slope below had already avalanched from a remote trigger below the ridgeline. Photo: GNFAC Link to Avalanche Details |
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Lionhead Range, 2024-01-09 Top gray streak: Weak surface hoar buried by new snow. Second gray streak: Old surface hoar that is still visible. Photo: GNFAC Link to Avalanche Details |
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Lionhead Range, 2024-01-09 |
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Lionhead Range, 2024-01-09 |
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Lionhead Range, 2024-01-09 Doug Chabot pointing to a layer of buried surface hoar that failed while isolating an extended column test, ECTPV. Photo: GNFAC Link to Avalanche Details |
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, 2024-01-09 The Darren Johnson Avalanche Education Memorial Fund is hosting two fundraisers on January 16 at The Waypoint and January 18 at Beehive Basin Brewery in Big Sky. |