Natural small deep slab on Sheep

COOKE CITY
Cooke City
Code
HS-N-R2-D2-O
Elevation
10500
Aspect
E
Latitude
45.02020
Longitude
-109.93800
Notes

Today we rode north of Cooke City and looked at recent natural and Human-triggered avalanches...

We saw two slides that had not been reported previously. One natural on the east side of Sheep Mtn. that was a hard slab of wind-drifted snow on a heavily wind loaded slope near the high ridgeline at 10,500'.

Number of slides
1
Number caught
0
Number buried
0
Avalanche Type
Hard slab avalanche
Trigger
Natural trigger
R size
2
D size
2
Bed Surface
O - Old snow
Problem Type
Persistent Weak Layer
Slab Thickness
30.0 inches
Vertical Fall
1000ft
Slab Width
150.00ft
Snow Observation Source
Slab Thickness units
inches
Single / Multiple / Red Flag
Single Avalanche
Advisory Year