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From obs: "Observed Deep Slab avalanche on the Shoulder of Republic Mountain today. Went to ground runout/could see dirt throughout runout." Photo: B. Zavora

From IG 3/2: A skier triggered this slide in the Bridgers.

Photo from IG, slide occurred night of 3/1.

From email: "We were 3/4 the way up lulu today on the west side of the creek under the Henderson Bench. It broke1/2 way down off the top ridge and ran all the way to the creek. Debris pile 20+ feet. Location matches super slide of 5-6 years ago, we were accros the drainage sitting on the "match sticks" layed out on the trail thru lulu. Ran into the Av center team about an hour before the incident, and as always thanked them for being the best and keeping us all informed! Nobody caught, remote trigged, but we were luckily across the drainage when it went!"

From email: "New Obs from Bridger side country. Toured Texas Meadows over to the playground. Saw some small point releases in new snow on south and southwest facing aspects. At the top of the playground I dug a small hand pit. I suspect it was in a shallow snow pack area, as I was able to dig to rock before running out of arm to dig. The snow was getting wet the whole way through (could make a snowball even out of the snow at the ground level where I was looking for buried persistent weak layers). On the southern aspect of the playground we saw some roller balls that had been covered by the new snow yesterday and today. The only places we saw evidence of wind on our tour was just past the bridger boundary. "

We rode into Tepee Basin and saw two recent avalanches. One looked like it happened this morning on a treed ridgeline, 1-1.5' deep 150-200' wide. The other looked like it maybe happened yesterday, on a heavily wind-loaded slope below some cornices, 2-2.5' deep and 250-300' wide. We had brief good visibility of the major avalanche terrain in the upper basin and didn't see any other slides. We measured 12" of snow = 1.5" of SWE that fell since Thursday. Snow was drifted near ridgelines and in the highest meadows. There was some cracking in the new snow around sled skis, but it was minimal.

Unstable result on the S shoulder of lower Texas Meadows. ECTP 12 - 40 CM down on a crust facet combo from the last warm up. E facing 23 degree slope, 7639 ft.

Went out to butter from the yurt with my client today. Around green lake and Zimmer creek nearly everything over 30 degrees slid on the new/old interface. New snow didn’t bond well and there is a very touch storm slab. Lots of cr co on everything low angle  

Also saw a couple hard slab D2 avalanches. One was skiers left of butter, couldn’t quite see the path but took a picture of the run out. The other was in the boulder field of cardiac hill.