Southern Madison

From obs: 5/9/21: "Yesterday we went to check out the new snow in Beehive Basin.... While traversing... along the north ridge of 10602, we triggered a small wind slab  that carried down into Peruvian, which then released another small wind slab on a northeast aspect of the face (photo). The crown height of this wind slab was measured at 60cm at it's deepest point, and approximately 30ft wide by 10ft long.

Looking down into the face of Peruvian, we observed a natural dry loose slide that released from the ridge. We observed an increase in wind speed throughout the morning, and a shift in wind direction from west to southwest in the early morning moving to west to north west by the late morning."

Multiple wet slides were reported in southern Madison and Tobacco Roots over the week 5/3-5/7.

From email 5/2/21: "Small but plentiful wet snow avalanches in Cooke City today. Didn’t see any that were broke on a deeper scale."

From obs 4/30/21: "Yesterday I witnessed a big wet slide. It started on the exit from The Fin on Old Man Rays. Looks like it started on a rock band. Noon. Since people have been skiing The Fin recently I just happened to be looking up there and saw movement. It quickly quadrupled and then flowed across the ski line and over the cliff band. Spectacular. Flowed like a water fall for about a minute."

From obs: "I traversed the Bridger range yesterday (4/28/21). The alpine start was good and solid but I saw lots of recent avalanches that looked super wet, some that had broken a couple feet deep. Conditions were pretty stable until about 1300 when that most recent snow layer started to really want to slide on the crust. Once I was in the meadows between Baldy and the M, at about 1400, I started hearing/feeling really wet "whumps".