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<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Don’t let today’s sunny skies lull you into complacency. The avalanche conditions remain remarkably dangerous and we have continued the avalanche warning through tomorrow morning. If you get on, or even near, steep slopes, you are very likely going to trigger an avalanche.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Yesterday, after investigating an avalanche that was triggered in Tepee Basin on Wednesday, breaking 3/4 of a mile wide and 3-4 ft deep (</span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.mtavalanche.com/node/30547"><span><span><span><strong><span… and video</span></span></u></span></strong></span></span></span></a><span><span><span><span><span><span>), we remotely triggered an avalanche from the flats that broke 30 ft away below us, 2-3 ft deep, ~250 ft wide, and ran full path to the valley bottom (</span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyk_y6bKPW4"><span><span><span><strong>…;). Riders in Lionhead yesterday triggered one slide from 100 ft away and saw several others break naturally (</span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.mtavalanche.com/node/30588"><span><span><span><strong><span…;). Slides are breaking deeper and larger than they have all season and are being triggered from a long ways away.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Expect more of the same today. This season’s extraordinarily weak snowpack will take a long time before it starts to stabilize. Stay off of and out from under all slopes steeper than 30 degrees.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Human triggered avalanches are very likely and the avalanche danger is HIGH.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Human triggered avalanches remain likely. Today’s new snow builds on an incremental load that has been accumulating all week, now adding up to 1.5-2 ft of snowfall since last Saturday (with reports of more at higher elevations).</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The snowpack has stayed touchy. Yesterday, a splitboarder remotely triggered a small avalanche south of Cooke City from 100 ft away and noted several recent small natural avalanches (</span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.mtavalanche.com/node/30573"><span><span><span><strong><span…;). Riders on Buck Ridge yesterday got large collapses (</span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.mtavalanche.com/node/30569"><span><span><span><strong><span…;). There have been many natural and human triggered avalanches over the last week (</span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.mtavalanche.com/weather/wx-avalanche-log"><span><span><span…. and avalanche log</span></span></u></span></strong></span></span></span></a><span><span><span><span><span><span>)</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Be skeptical of all steep slopes, but be even more wary of slopes where the recent snow has drifted into deeper, stiffer slabs. Avoiding all slopes steeper than 30 degrees is the best way to avoid triggering and being caught by a dangerous slide. Be cautious passing beneath these slopes as well since you can just as easily trigger a slide from below.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The avalanche danger is CONSIDERABLE.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>