Togwotee Pass

The General Avalanche Hazard is CONSIDERABLE. 6 inches of heavy snow containing a half inch of water over the past 24 hours came in with strong winds creating easily triggered slabs to over a foot in depth on lee slopes. The new snow rests on weak, light density snow making them easy to trigger. On northerly slopes, deeper old slabs lie on old, faceted, October snow. A snowmobiler was buried in such a slide near Bondurant on Sunday. His prepared companions dug him out uninjured.

( Discussion is generated from the previous day's afternoon forecast. )A snow advisory is in effect for Western Wyoming until 11 am Tuesday. Pacific moisture and strong winds are forecasted to bring 6 to 12 inches to the mountains. Daytime mountain highs will reach 30 degrees f. and upper elevation winds will be Southwesterly at 30 to 40 miles per hour. Snow depths could be deeper on the western slopes.The General Avalanche Hazard is expected to be CONSIDERABLE Tuesday morning. Strong winds with increasing snow will create dangerous slabs in steep, lee areas above 8000 feet. New surface slabs could release on lighter density layers in newer snow or fail on deeper weak layers formed during the Thanksgiving dry spell.