Crown Butte
Cooke City
Code
SS-AMu-R1-D2-O
Aspect
SE
Latitude
45.05250
Longitude
-109.96200
Notes
From email: "Saw 3 different slides today, all had sled tracks near or into them, and were breaking from rocks... The other slides were smaller, had broken from rocks at the top of ridges. Also saw some cracking mid slope, on this same a aspect a ridge over down left of this photo."
Photo is of avalanche on SE
aspect
of Crown Butte.
Number caught
0
Number buried
0
Avalanche Type
Soft slab avalanche
Trigger
Snowmobile
Trigger Modifier
u-An unintentional release
R size
1
D size
2
Bed Surface
O - Old snow
Problem Type
Persistent Weak Layer
Images
Slab Thickness units
centimeters
Single / Multiple / Red Flag
Multiple Avalanches
Advisory Year