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Bridger Range, 2023-04-24

From obs: "On 4/22 at 12:30pm we were part way up the boot pack (now skin track) up from Bridger chair to the ridge. We heard someone yelling and looked over to see a skier caught in an avalanche just above North Bowl Road. The slide came to a stop at the road (they were on top the whole time), and the skier yelled that they were ok. Seemed like they were skiing alone but more of the party may have been out of view. We had not seen wet snow concerns until about 30 minutes before the incident. By the time we left bridger, most chutes had slides out of them."

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Bridger Range, 2023-04-19

From obs 4/19/23: "We observed a large slide at the Apron that was released from the Hidden Gully. In a whiteout, we couldn't tell the size, but it looked quite substantial. The slide didn't go all the way to the bottom."

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Bridger Range, 2023-04-19

From obs 4/19/23: "New snow is not bonding well to the old snow surface.  Sluffing and running far on steeper terrain.  Photo taken on First Finger. Heavy snowfall and wind." Photo: J. Curry

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Northern Madison, 2023-04-19

A skier took this photo on 4/16/23. The avalanche likely ran around 4/11 during high danger for wet snow avalanches. 

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Northern Madison, 2023-04-16

From obs: "Was able to spot a deep slab avalanche from Gallatin peak, slab was at the headwaters of S Fork Hellroaring (N aspect @ 9800) Hard to tell when this released as it was a few miles away, I would estimate the crown being around 10 feet. Observed a small storm slab on a north aspect as well (1-2 foot crown). Also saw a few dozen wet slides that released earlier this week, some tearing all the way to the ground." Photo: T. Saulnier

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Southern Madison, 2023-04-16

Riders observed a natural, dry slab avalanche that occurred last week on a northerly aspect near the Sphinx. 

Approx coordinates of slide #1: 45.15872, -111.46923

Photo: L. Welles

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Southern Madison, 2023-04-16

Riders observed a natural, dry slab avalanche that occurred last week on a northerly aspect near the Sphinx. 

Approx coordinates of slide #1: 45.15872, -111.46923

Photo: L. Welles

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Southern Madison, 2023-04-16

Riders observed a small, full-depth wet snow avalanche on a southerly aspect near Pioneer Mountain. Photo: L. Welles

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Northern Madison, 2023-04-15

From obs 4/14/23: "Pretty much the entire wall skiers right of the prayer flags back into beehive slid. Wet slide. Multiple crown lines and long running." These probably occurred during hot temperatures 4/8-4/11.

 

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Northern Madison, 2023-04-15

From obs 4/14/23: "Pretty much the entire wall skiers right of the prayer flags back into beehive slid. Wet slide. Multiple crown lines and long running." These probably occurred during hot temperatures 4/8-4/11.

 

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Northern Madison, 2023-04-15

From obs 4/14/23: "Pretty much the entire wall skiers right of the prayer flags back into beehive slid. Wet slide. Multiple crown lines and long running." These probably occurred during hot temperatures 4/8-4/11.

 

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Island Park, 2023-04-15

Photo from IG 4/13/23: @waxeman Slide probably occurred last weekend 4/8-4/11?

Bridger Range, 2023-04-15

From 4/13/23: "Small storm slab off the steep drift on skier's R/skinner's L side of upper Thunder Road. Also felt some cracking and collapsing when I (briefly) stepped off the skin track to get to the top of Pierre's Knob."

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Bridger Range, 2023-04-15

On 4/13/23: "skinned up to the ridge and observed 5-9 inches of new and accumulating snow forming into wind drifts that were highly reactive. Multiple remote triggers occurred while traveling N on the ridge, propagating  both on W and E faces of the ridge. Both Hidden and Northwest Passage slid with little effort down to an icy bed surface. Debris at bottom of hidden was substantial but great skiing."

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Bridger Range, 2023-04-13

Pics of a natural wet slide that came out of Close Call yesterday afternoon (4/11/23), debris ran to the bottom of moonshine. Photo: BBSP

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Bridger Range, 2023-04-13

Pics of a natural wet slide that came out of Close Call yesterday afternoon (4/11/23), debris ran to the bottom of moonshine. Photo: BBSP

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Bridger Range, 2023-04-13

Pics of a natural wet slide that came out of Close Call yesterday afternoon (4/11/23), debris ran to the bottom of moonshine. Photo: BBSP

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Bridger Range, 2023-04-13

From 4/11/23: "Although I only photographed North Bowl slides that ran very far, most of the chutes showed signs of wet slides running from the ridge. These were both in the bowl next to PK and north bowl."

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Northern Madison, 2023-04-12

From Big Sky Ski Patrol: "Temps remained a little cooler than yesterday and generally topped out in the mid 40’s F. That didn’t stop the free water from moving
and continuing to destabilize the snowpack, primarily on solar aspects below 10,000’. Near full depth to full depth wet loose avalanches continued to naturally release in what was left of the A-Z’s as well as LRT which had not seen any activity yesterday." Photo: BSSP

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Bridger Range, 2023-04-12

From 4/11/23: Yesterday (4/10) Colters released a wet slide (approx 1-3pm) that filled the top of the wiggle and left debris 300ft past the south bowl traverse.

Today Stupor had a similar sized release just after noon. 

photo J. Lee

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