Tetons

Current strong winds are moving new snow and building easily released slabs to eighteen inches in depth at the upper elevations. Once triggered these slides could pull out deeper slabs from earlier February snows that lie upon hard slick crusts. At the middle and upper range of low elevations, pockets of new slab to a foot in depth could be triggered in leeward zones and in cliff areas. A skier was caught, buried and injured yesterday in a road cut on Teton Pass and Saturday a skier was caught and partially buried in a small avalanche on a Northeast aspect of Maverick in Grand Teton National Park at 7800'.