Observer's Images, January 05

   Darren MacAvoy:

                                                    The northern half of the extensive Wood Camp crown in the early morning light.

                                  Master baker, Josh poses under the gigantic Oscar Meyer crown in Logan Dry Canyon, 1-13-05.

                  Dave and Kelly look like ants making their way up the eastern Folly avalanche.  This path naturally avalanched on the exact 8 year anniversary of Logan's most recent avalanche tragedy, in which three well-loved and experienced Loganites were trapped in their tent by an unexpected natural avalanche.

             One grumpy old timer in search of a little remaining snow in Logan Dry Canyon, was overheard muttering that this had to be at least a twenty or thirty year avalanche cycle.

Greg Beveridge:

                   A neat aerial? perspective of the extensive natural avalanches in Upper Logan Dry Canyon.  The summit of Logan Peak is in the upper left corner. 

            Alex Stoy:

              Derek and his four legged partner examine the huge crown of a hard slab avalanche just south of Gibson Lake, a few miles north of the Idaho Border in Franklin Basin.  This avalanche on a steep northeast facing slope was around 1000' wide.  It was just one of three big natural avalanches in the mountains immediately surrounding Gibson Lake.  Numerous impressive natural avalanches were observed in the  area, on both sides of the State Line.

                This picture shows the lower part of the crown face with the December 10th rain crust, and the November facets clearly visible. 4 or 5 more feet of recently deposited wind slab (1 finger hard) is above the view of this frame. Large avalanches in the region failed on both weak layers during the impressive natural avalanche cycle at the beginning of 2005.

Greta Burkart:

               This impressive natural hard slab avalanche in Cottonwood Canyon included most of the very broad Morning Glory Face on the eastern buttress of Mount Elmer.