This is general spring snowpack information and travel advice issued on Saturday May 2 nd, 2020.It does not expire.

According to the Friends of the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center Facebook page, four skiers were caught in the avalanche in the Tobacco Root Mountains near Bell Lake Yurt.. One of the snowmobilers managed to … The avalanche struck in the afternoon on New Year's Day near Lake Dinah, about 30 miles northeast of Missoula, Montana. One person is dead and another is injured after they were caught in an avalanche Friday, in Southwest Montana. Avalanche danger is high for the Flathead, Glacier Range and Cooke City. According to local police , the avalanche left a trail of 840 metres.

Snowpack in the mountains across western Montana is still volatile, making the backcountry ripe for new avalanches. A 35-year-old California man has died in an avalanche while backcountry skiing in southwest Montana. Yesterday, an avalanche, which started above a piste at the Swiss resort of Crans Montana, spilled out on to it. By the evening one person, a 34 year old French ski patroller who had been helping a skier, had been confirmed dead and another three confirmed to have suffered minor injuries. A snowmobiler died during an avalanche in southern Montana on Saturday, officials said Sunday.


The Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center has stopped issuing daily avalanche forecasts for the season.

Just two weeks before renowned climber Hayden Kennedy killed himself following the death of his girlfriend in an avalanche in Montana, he wrote on a …