Lawine

Avalanche: Main Porter

Nick BurrSalt Lake
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Avalanche

Slab Width
12 m
Trigger Type
Natural
Slab Thickness
51 cm
Start Zone Aspect
Northeast

About 1/2 - 2/3 of the way down Inbetween, some sluffs from the east facing wall had entrained into a long running loose avalanche in the gut. Not sure how high up in the trees the starting points were (there were multiple). The slide joined the Inbetween run at the choke just under the cliffs mid run and stopped a few hundred feet short of where the run ends. Debris pile was deep, and in some spots quite chunky. Did a beacon search of the debris, no signals. No tracks. Must have been natural, and likely late at night/early this morning due to the lack of new snow. Surprisingly big. I suppose all that graupel had something to do with it.

Towards the bottom the new snow was gouged up to 2 feet.