Avalanches at Lulu Pass

Avalanches at Lulu Pass

From an email: "Today me and friends were shuttling laps on lulu pass and watched a snomobiler get caught in a slide in those avalanche chutes next to the old cabin at the bottom of the pass. He was caught and buried but had a arm sticking out when we got there right away. We dug him out and he was not hurt. There was two other slide runouts visible on the same aspect and obvious signs of instability. Black is where the victim was buried. Blue is another sledder that was stuck when the slide occurred. Red outlines the crown, slide path, and run out. And orange is a slide that must have happened late yesterday or last night."  Photo: G. Sunderland

Cooke City, 2012-01-23