Wet loose slides near Big Sky

Yellow Mountain
Northern Madison
Code
WL-N-R1-D1.5
Elevation
9300
Aspect
S
Latitude
45.29950
Longitude
-111.32000
Notes

From e-mail: "Natural wet slides [on 3/21]... caused us to back off our plan of heading that way and ski a north, shady aspect instead. On a southern aspect at 9000ft at 1:30pm we dug a hasty pit and observed a weak layer about 1m down. The facets were beginning to round." Photo: K. Master

Number of slides
1
Number caught
0
Number buried
0
Avalanche Type
Wet loose-snow avalanche
Trigger
Natural trigger
R size
1
D size
1.5
Problem Type
Wet Snow
Slab Thickness units
centimeters
Single / Multiple / Red Flag
Single Avalanche
Advisory Year