Avalanche: Central Bear River Range

Eric and Amy Flygare

Logan » Central Bear River Range

Cherry Creek and other Front Canyons

9,200'

Southwest

Natural

We got home from riding this afternoon and pulled out the telescope to look for any recent avalanche activity on the front range. We noticed several recent avalanches, probably ran yesterday during the warm temperatures. Sorry for the poor photos. The first was this very large avalanche in the North Fork of Cherry Creek. The slide started near the ridgeline at 9200 feet, was 1/4 to 1/2 mile wide, and ran down to 7400 feet. The slopes involved faced South east to West and encompassed several pockets that released likely during the same event

There was another slide in the Cougar Peak vicinity. last week most faces on Cougar peak avalanched big. Yesterday a smaller pocket (50-70 ft) pulled out on a West facing sub ridge around 8400 feet. We could not see the toe of the avalanche but it likely did not run more than 4-500 vertical feet

One smaller slide was noticed in Smithfield canyon just South of the Grotto and North of Rocky Canyon. The 50 foot wide slide started on a Northwest facing slope in the trees and ran at least 600 vertical.

The last slide was in Logan Dry Cirque. The slide started at about 9200 feet and was 50-75 feet wide