Photos

Close up of the crown of the avalanche on Saddle Peak that broke on Friday 01/6/23. 18-24" deep.

From obs: "While riding a small NNE facing slope near the trail on Buck Ridge, a snowboarder triggered and followed a cornice slide that propagated approximately 75 feet and slid about 20' vertical. The one rider was caught and carried approx. 10' and ended up buried upright, waist deep with no injuries."

From obs: "While riding a small NNE facing slope near the trail on Buck Ridge, a snowboarder triggered and followed a cornice slide that propagated approximately 75 feet and slid about 20' vertical. The one rider was caught and carried approx. 10' and ended up buried upright, waist deep with no injuries."

From IG 1/7/23: "Natural slide in avalanche bowl up in fairy lake today." Photo: S. Mooney

The "crown" of a very small skier triggered avalanche in the northern Bridger Range. 1/6/23. GNFAC photo.

We rode into The Throne, and skinned up the ridge. While skinning we saw cracks in front of our skis in the 6” of new snow. Photo: GNFAC

Looking down the very small avalanche (~4" deep) we triggered on a small, steep slope below The Throne. GNFAC photo. 1/6/23.

At 1:30 PM on Jan 6th a large avalanche poured over the cliffs on Saddle Peak, outside the boundaries of Bridger Bowl. Clouds obscured the starting zone. Multiple groups were in the runout zone, including a party building a jump. One person was caught and buried up to his neck. He was able extricate himself and was unharmed. He estimated the debris was at least six feet deep.

We believe this was a natural avalanche that broke in the new and wind drifted snow. Bridger Bowl measured 6" of new snow with 0.75 inches of Snow Water Equivalent at the Alpine Wx. Station.

Photo: S. Peterson

While skiing around our boundaries I observed well developed surface hoar that was relatively widespread in undisturbed areas. The photo included seemed to go well with the fx. Photo: J. Aid

From email: "I came across this older avalanche yesterday when I was guiding a group in the Kirkwood area, it’s an area in the Cabin Creek drainage. It looked to be an older natural slide probably just after the last storm cycle a few days to almost a week ago now. North, North East Aspect. Approximately 39 degree slope (Because of a creek with open water just below the slide, I couldn’t get close enough to accurately measure the slope)". Photo: J. Norlander

Recent low density snow was drifted into 10” soft slab from west wind, north of Cooke City. Skier triggered intentional on test slope. 

Small deep avalanche in Cabin Creek. Likely broke 1/1/23. GNFAC photo.

Small deep natural avalanche in Cabin Creek. Likely broke 1/1/23. GNFAC photo.

On Jan 2, a natural avalanche released in the gully above Bobo Like in the Flanders Drainage and washed over a pair of climbers. No one was caught or injured.