Widespread, large collapses shaking trees in S. Gallatin

Specimen Creek
Southern Gallatin
Code
Latitude
45.02650
Longitude
-111.04800
Notes

Skiers in Specimen Creek wrote: "Lots of shooting cracks. Snow was falling off trees hundreds of feet away with some collapses."

Skiers at Bacon Rind reported: "Witnessed two huge whumpfs while skinning a NE aspect around 7600’ en route to regaining the main skin track ridge. Both whumpfs shook the snow off trees within a 100 yard radius."

Another group wrote: "Tremendous amounts of collapsing and whumphing today in the bacon rind. We parked at the southern lot and skinned up the ridge; got collapsing and whumphing on most aspects and all elevations."

Number of slides
0
Number caught
0
Number buried
0
Problem Type
Persistent Weak Layer
Slab Thickness units
centimeters
Single / Multiple / Red Flag
Red Flag
Advisory Year