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Start zone of a loose wet avalanche that triggered a wet slab on Yellow Mountain sometime in the last two days. Photo: T. Vanyo

From instagram: "Easily triggered 3" soft slabs/loose snow slides. NW facing Northern Madison around 11,000' Ran 400' on sun crust. At least 3 intentionally triggered." Photo credit: B. Gill

This wet slab failed within the past week on a west aspect in Beehive Basin. Photo: GNFAC

Photo: J. Dillon

Skiers in Hyalite saw a natural wet slab near Blackmore Lake. From the email: "The slide was located around 300 yards South of Blackmore Lake on a West facing slope at an elevation just above 7400 feet.  It broke below a cliff band about 3' deep (to the ground) and ran a few hundred feet (almost to the skin track)." Photo: JR Mooney

Skiers triggered this wet slab avalanche on Saturday afternoon (3/23). Warm sunny days have weakened the snowpack and made wet avalanches possible. Photo: G. Egnew

Skiers triggered this wet slab avalanche on Saturday afternoon (3/23). Warm sunny days have weakened the snowpack and made wet avalanches possible. Photo: G. Egnew

This wet slab was observed on Friday (3/22) across the Sourdough canyon trail, about 1.4 miles up. It put 4-6 feet of debris lower down in the creek. Although small, a heavy wet slide like this can be powerful and very dangerous. Current warm temperatures are a shock to the snowpack, and steep slopes should be avoided if the snow is wet. Photo: P. Brown

This wet slab was observed on Friday (3/22) across the Sourdough canyon trail, about 1.4 miles up. It put 4-6 feet of debris lower down in the creek. Although small, a heavy wet slide like this can be powerful and very dangerous. Current warm temperatures are a shock to the snowpack, and steep slopes should be avoided if the snow is wet. Photo: S. Gill

This wet slab was observed on Friday (3/22) across the Sourdough canyon trail, about 1.4 miles up. It put 4-6 feet of debris lower down in the creek. Although small, a heavy wet slide like this can be powerful and very dangerous. Current warm temperatures are a shock to the snowpack, and steep slopes should be avoided if the snow is wet. Photo: S. Gill

A snowbiker was partially buried in a slide on the west side of Sage Peak in the southern Madison Range. The slide occurred on a southwest facing slope at 8,700 ft. and failed on weak snow near the ground. The wet slab avalanche was triggered as the biker was side-hilling across the slope. He was caught, carried and buried to his chest, but fortunately escaped unharmed. Photo: D. Talbert 

A skier sent in photos of multiple loose wet avalanches near Mt. Blackmore yesterday. Photo: G. Antonioli

Recent dry slab avalanche that was triggered by a falling cornice and failed at the ground. Photo: G. Antonioli

Debris pile from the smaller of two wet slab avalanches on the south-facing chutes off of Texas Meadows. P: A. Schauer

Photo of the track of the larger of two wet slabs on the south-facing chutes off of Texas Meadows. Photo: A. Schauer

Two wet slabs that looked to have released during the past 48 hours. The smaller slide on the left had a debris pile that was 6' deep. The larger slide on the right failed at the ground and took most of the snow in the chute with it. The large slide may have been triggered from smaller loose wet slide that was set off by a skier. Photo: A. Schauer

Large debris pile from a recent wet loose avalanche north of Bridger Bowl. Photo: A. Schauer

Outside Cooke City up Zimmer Creek, a skier spotted this cornice fall which triggered a small pocket down low. Photo: F. Madsen

Many wet loose and wet slab avalanches were seen near Zimmer Creek (north of Cooke City) on south and east aspects. Temperatures were warm at 10,000 feet. Photo: F. Madsen