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Wood Camp 2-20-1986

   (Images from the US Forest Service, Logan District records, collected and photographed by Mike Van Horn. )

 

 

       The deposition near the toe was over 60 feet deep.  It contained over a million cubic yards of snow.

                                         

 

 

             The large natural avalanche was very destructive.  Luckily, no people were involved.

                                        

 

The crown was well over a mile long. Most of the bowls and slopes on the east side of the ridge between Beirdneau Peak and Mt. Elmer avalanched simultaneously.

                                         

 

 

                The avalanche ran about two and a half miles and around 3100 vertical feet.

                                        

 

 

                      The deposition did not completely melt until August of 1987.