Skier triggered slide from cornice, Cooke

Hayden Creek
Cooke City
Code
U-AS
Elevation
9800
Aspect
E
Latitude
44.99520
Longitude
-109.90800
Notes

From a skier: "as we were digging a pit, we got into a conversation with three skiers as they skinned past. They had skinned up Rip Curl (from Hayden Creek) and then continued S. along Woody Ridge. They experienced several large collapses along the ridge line and eventually remotely triggered a c cornice c collapse that set off an avalanche (described as a large powder cloud) in the Climax s slide path (E. a aspect ."

 

Number of slides
1
Number caught
0
Number buried
0
Avalanche Type
Unknown
Trigger
Skier
Problem Type
New Snow
Slab Thickness units
centimeters
Single / Multiple / Red Flag
Single Avalanche
Advisory Year