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Avalanche: Red Pine

Rusty ChungusSalt Lake
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Avalanche

Slab Width
14 m
Trigger Type
Skier
Vertical Fall
15 m
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
30 cm
Trigger Detail
Unintentionally Triggered
Start Zone Aspect
Northwest
Avalanche Problem
Wind Slab
Start Zone Elevation
2957 m

Traversing across the top of a small hill... a wind slab, from overnight and daytime southerly winds, was triggered and one skier was caught and carried about 50 ft. Fortunately the terrain was ultra low consequence as the hill was very small and no terrain features.

Incident

Number Carried
1