Saw this today while skiing. This crown is on a northeast aspect at about 8600 feet. Crown height 6-8 feet. It is mid path in the Great One. It seems to have naturally avalanched on Sunday during the storm, without a cornice trigger , after the wind event. All I can get here is that the slope was overloaded from storm snow, on top of a recently overgrown hard slab . Looks like it initiated higher up and pulled out much deeper below. Definitely a large hard slab avalanche . HS-N-R3-D3.5. Debris made it to the trees in the historic path. Otherwise, northeast aspects are loaded above 8500 feet, and I saw about 14 inches of new at 8000 feet. No loading during the day today.
The Great One
Bridger Range
Code
HS-N-R3-D3.5-O
Elevation
8600
Aspect
NE
Latitude
45.89260
Longitude
-110.96200
Notes
Number caught
0
Number buried
0
Avalanche Type
Hard slab avalanche
Trigger
Natural trigger
R size
3
D size
3.5
Bed Surface
O - Old snow
Slab Thickness
72.0 inches
Images
Slab Thickness units
inches
Single / Multiple / Red Flag
Single Avalanche
Advisory Year