Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 38°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 12 m
- Weak Layer
- Facets
- Trigger Type
- Natural
- Vertical Fall
- 213 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 46 cm
- Start Zone Aspect
- Northeast
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3048 m
Walked up to West Monitor to see what the new snow was doing. New snow was 5" of light density being blown into softslabs by the NE winds. Saw a slide that looked like it ran not long before we got there. Winds were cranking on the ridge line slabbing up the light density snow and crossloading the area where the slide occurred.
Close up of the crown and debris pile. I think the part of the slope that slid was crossloaded by the winds and it released on weak faceted snow under the rockband when the facets could hold no more weight. Snow is so weak and thin on that slope that it didn't take much to overload the starting zone. Gouged down into the facets and had a decent size debris pile at the bottom. Ran down to the transition zone where the slope angle decreases.
Cracking and collapsing noted on the slabbed up ridge line.