Saw two seperate avalanches today in West Monitor, looks like they both released yesterday, there was a few inches of snow on the bed surface. First slide the crown was 300ft wide 12" deep but only a 20ft wide section of the slide made it to the flats. Looked like a natural cornice drop might have released it or maybe remoted from some one walking on the ridge. Soft slab that most likely pulled out on the density inversion that was in the new snow yesterday. Pics are the crown, main gut of the slide, and the cornice drop that might have been the trigger.




Second slide was in the same spot that had avalanched to the ground on 1-23-12. slide was 20ft wide with about an 8" crown. There were some snowboard tracks right next to the slide for the first 15 turns then the slide took out the rest of the tracks all the way down to the flats. Slide must have occured after the run was made, no signs of tracks on the debris. Know the boarder well, looks like he made it out just fine. Pics are Part of the crown, Slide with the tracks on the side, debris pile. sorry about the bad pics lousy lighting.

Tracks on skiers right of the slide



no cornices dropped today