

The pockety wind slabs that formed the day after Christmas are still active. A persistent sugary weak layer capping a crust is causing a lingering danger on some slopes.

A snowmobiler triggered this small hard slab avalanche on the East Face of Naomi Peak sometime on 12-29-06. The avalanche under cliffs on a steep east facing slope at ~9500' was around a foot deep and 40' wide.

Here the easily escaped avalanche turned out to be harmless, but a similar slide could be dangerous or deadly if if strained you through trees or slammed you into or off of a rock.