Lawine

Avalanche: West Porter

DBSalt Lake
Auf der Karte ansehen

Avalanche

Slab Width
183 m
Weak Layer
New Snow
Trigger Type
Natural
Vertical Fall
183 m
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
30 cm
Start Zone Aspect
East
Avalanche Problem
New Snow
Start Zone Elevation
2896 m

Pretty large assuming natural (no skintrack heading above where we dropped) new snow slide in the E facing bowl behind west porter. Probably triggered from high PI. Stopped in the trees to shoot a photo of my buddy and saw a lot of snow moving about 50ft to my left. Visibility was poor but from the debris piles looked like most of the bowl had slid, roughly 600ft from a caltopo measure. Triggered another 10 or so small soft slabs on our way out porter, just about every little roll or test slope would crack and get some snow moving. Roughly 8" of new snow above 8500' and was still dumping 1-2"/ hour on our exit at 1pm