On Saturday, December 20, 2025 at approximately 2:00pm, one skier in a party of two unintentionally triggered an avalanche on a north-facing, steep, rocky, and sparsely treed chute known as the Claw (43.48332, -110.94696) approximately two miles south of the main parking lot at Teton Pass. The terrain was wind-loaded with drifts along the crest of the ridge and piles of wind-driven sluff debris beneath short rock outcroppings. The party triggered a small slab avalanche at the top of a larger, adjacent northeast facing gully before skiing into the top of a smaller feature. The lead skier performed a ski-cut to test stability and then began to ski the slope. After one or two turns, the slope failed above the skier, about 65 feet across the 40 to 45 degree slope. The debris ran 1,000 feet (600’ vertical fall) to the base of the avalanche path, carrying and critically burying the first skier among trees. The crown face appeared to average one and a half feet in thickness (SS-AS(u)-R3-D2).