23-24

Wind was calm and there was no new snow overnight. A small whumpf in the skin track was followed by a massive one a few minutes later. I can count on one hand the number of times I got whumpfs in a skin track...rare indeed. The second one was so big it had us both deeply concerned. We peeled off the skin track after deciding to not cross a gully and soon found debris from a sizeable avalanche that released a couple days ago about 500' above us. We dug in the flank and had 100 cm of snow, 60 cm new from last week. The snowfall during the Avalanche Warning, doubled the depth and more than doubled the snow water equivalent of the snowpack. It was a large load and avalanches are breaking underneath the new snow.

Karl was using his 100 cm long Norwegian Battle Saw (pic)...a bit overkill.

From FB message on 2/11/24: "Picket Pin Mountain yesterday. We triggered it but weren't anywhere near it"

Thanks to all the participants at this year's King and Queen of the Ridge, and to Bridger Bowl for hosting the fundraiser for the Friends of the Avalanche Center! Photo: M. Kautz

Thanks to all the participants at this year's King and Queen of the Ridge, and to Bridger Bowl for hosting the fundraiser for the Friends of the Avalanche Center! Photo: M. Kautz

Thanks to all the participants at this year's King and Queen of the Ridge, and to Bridger Bowl for hosting the fundraiser for the Friends of the Avalanche Center! Photo: M. Kautz

From IG message: “It looks like the lawn mower up north deep creek slide full path. Looking through Bino’s from the valley it looked fairly fresh. Multiple fracture lines up at the starting point. I assume it went naturally” Photo: B. Decampli

From IG message: “It looks like the lawn mower up north deep creek slide full path. Looking through Bino’s from the valley it looked fairly fresh. Multiple fracture lines up at the starting point. I assume it went naturally”