Avalanche Incidents

Bridger Range
Bridger Bowl
Skier triggered pocket at Bridger Bowl
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Bridger Bowl
ASu-R0-D1
Elevation: 8,500
Aspect: NE
Coordinates: 45.8156, -110.9230
Caught: 0 ; Buried: 0

From IG: Pocket I set off between finger 2 and 3 at Bridger Bowl just above the road. Finger 1 had someone ski it while we were hiking and they got a face wide crack.


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Lionhead Range
Lionhead Ridge
Splitboarder triggered avalanche at lionhead
Lionhead Ridge
SS-ARu-R2-D2-O
Elevation: 9,000
Aspect: NE
Coordinates: 44.7145, -111.3180
Caught: 0 ; Buried: 0

Was splitboarding up near lions head ridge today. Made some bad decisions and kicked off a good slide in a NE facing chute. Was with 2 buddies, 1 of which skied the line 3 weeks ago.  Underneath about a foot of new powder snow there was a firm crust that seemed like it was old  hard windslab in the gut of the chute, and I think a sun crust on the riders left side(East aspect). We had 2 spots where we were planning to re group at, first was a small cubby area right before a slight rollover about 75 ft from the top. I dropped first, made some turns down toward the pulloff, as I pulled in, I triggered a good size slab that propagated maybe 40-50 ft across, at the rollover as I carved into the pulloff.  Pulled  all snow  out of the chute down to the ground. Seemed to have failed on sugary facets on ground/ice crust close to the ground... 


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Northern Gallatin
Mt Blackmore
Skier triggered Windslab Mt Blackmore
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Mt Blackmore
ASu-R2-D2-O
Elevation: 9,750
Aspect: E
Coordinates: 45.4443, -111.0020
Caught: 0 ; Buried: 0

Skiers reported triggering an avalanche on the east face of Mt. Blackmore on Sunday.


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Bridger Range
The Great One
Skier Triggered Wind Slab in The Great One
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The Great One
HS-ASu-R1-D1.5-O
Elevation: 9,000
Aspect: N
Coordinates: 45.8926, -110.9620
Caught: 1 ; Buried: 0

From observation: "Skier triggered windslab in the Great One off of Naya Nuki peak, skier was carried 15-20ft before arresting. Slide was triggered roughly halfway down the couloir where the right wall dips away exposing the snow to wind. Hard consolidated snow over facets, roughly 1-1.5 ft thick, ran about 50-100 ft before pouring over the cliff faces below. North- northeast aspect." 11/8/2023


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