Avalanche

October Bowl

Matt ZiaBridger Range
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Quick report

Large avalanche in October Bowl, ran either evening of 3/20 or day of 3/21. Most lower elevation slopes had a 2-4cm breakable crust with moist facets below. Quite cold, sunny, and windy (moderate, W) for most of the day, the crust broke down on direct solars by about 3pm, but otherwise stayed frozen and supportable. Lots of evidence of WL that ran during the warm spell in addition to the large avalanche in October Bowl, no new WL observed today (3/22)

Weather

Cloud Cover
few

Avalanche

Size
D2.5
Aspect
NE
Trigger
NC
Elevation
9300 ft

D2.5 wet slab/p-slab ran sometime either the evening of 3/20 or on 3/21. Appeared to have a cornice fall trigger off the ridge which stepped down.