Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 38°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 6 m
- Weak Layer
- Facets
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 9 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 46 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Intentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- North
- Avalanche Problem
- Persistent Weak Layer
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2896 m
Very easily provoked with a quick stomp on a steep test slope, and failed in faceted layer at the top of the Christmas storm. This avalanche, like most others today, still left much of the facets intact.