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Skiers from History Rock saw a few recent natural avalanches on Mt. Blackmore that likely happened during or near the end of a storm on 03/02-03/03. Photo: E. Webb

Observed a debris pile on the east face of Fischer Peak. Unable to determine when and what triggered it. Numerous debris piles on the Rasta Chutes on Scotch Bonnet. 

The Snow Ranger crew was out on Buck Ridge today.  We did not see any new slides around Beaver Creek, 1st Yellowmule, or Slatts Hill/ upper Buck Creek.  It began snowing before we made it to the McAtee/ 3rd Yellowmule area but from what we could see, it looked like the N/NE faces in McAtee that slid just over a week ago had avalanched again, nearly to the ground.  There were slightly dirty looking debris piles mid slope and several prominant crowns just below the ridge top but it was hard to make out details through the light snow, even with binoculars.

While traveling to Big Sky from Ennis, I noticed a large avalanche on the east face of Fan Mt.

Crown appears to start at approx. the 9500' elevation with a vertical drop of at least 2000'.  Crown appears to be 200-300 yards wide

We were skiing out of the Cabin Creek cabin over the weekend, mostly in the low angle terrain around Skyline Ridge. Throughout the storm on Saturday and after the clouds cleared on Sunday we experienced consistent whumpfing while breaking trail. Some were larger and some were smaller, usually triggered by the person breaking trail but some of the larger ones were triggered by the second or third skier in the track.

Continued signs of instability on a tour in Maid of the Mist Basin. A couple large collapses down low in the trees, wind slabs above tree line on variable aspects due to swirling wind up high. Large avalanche crown (10’ - 12’ in places) at the back of the basin which looked to have been trigger from cornice fall 3-4 days ago. ECTP 28 55cm off of ground on a 5cm thick layer of facets. Pit was dug on an east facing slope at 9,100 feet.