| Trigger | Natural | Remote Trigger | Unknown |
| Avalanche Type | Unknown | Aspect | Southeast |
| Elevation | 3200ft | Slope Angle | unknown |
| Crown Depth | unknown | Width | unknown |
| Vertical Run | unknown |
Avalanche: Summit
Location: Gilpatrick Mountain
Drove the highway in the afternoon to look for fresh natural avalanches with good visibility and lots of active wind transport.
Avalanche Details
From the road I was sure that we saw two crowns in this area, but after looking at the photos carefully I am only positive that one was an avalanches (see photos). This area was getting a lot of wind loading so it is likely that the avalanches were just getting filled in and it was hard to see the debris because it was covered with fresh wind deposits.
Partially filled in avalanche in middle of this gully on the shady side of the sun/shade line. Looks like it could have been a larger slab that propagated down slope. You can see part of the right flank in the photo. Most of the bed surface was filled in with fresh wind deposits.
A more zoomed out photo of questionable avalanche. There is no obvious debris pile underneath the feature that looks like a crown along the ridgeline. Maybe it was filled in with fresh wind drifted snow or the 'crown' is just a wind feature that looks like an avalanche.
With the naked eye I thought this was definitely a wind slab avalanche, but looking closer at the photo I'm not 100% sure.