2/6/11

Wolf tracks at the trailhead.
and a remotely triggered avalanche that propagated 200 feet wide...
today in Yellowstone National Park.

Posted by mt surf at 6:32 PM

6 comments:

  1. wildernessgirlFebruary 6, 2011 at 8:10 PM

    Beau, where in the park was this photo taken?

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  2. mt surfFebruary 6, 2011 at 10:16 PM

    Pebble Creek. East, southeast facing, around 8,800'.

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 7, 2011 at 8:41 AM

    Beau, wow that Crowned on top of that wind slab!
    Looks like the wind slabs and the drifts in Eastern Montana right now, but smaller... yeah I said smaller. Imagine cows and antelope buried in that with just their snouts sticking out of the snow. BC

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  4. wounded kneeFebruary 7, 2011 at 9:06 AM

    Two things concern me about that photo, the dead whitebark (I've got to investigate this ridge), and the fact that the Av. was remotely triggered. I figured various slabs/cross-loads could break underfoot, but what layer in the snowpack allowed energy transport for this sympathetic release?
    YOF

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  5. mt surfFebruary 7, 2011 at 12:57 PM

    Small grained facets over a m/f crust. (primarily)

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  6. david__riderFebruary 8, 2011 at 7:45 AM

    The double terrace of the crown on lookers left is fascinating. Ostensibly a fat wind slab that collapsed and then stepped down to the m/f crust you mentioned and then propagated out upon that layer?

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