Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 40°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 6 m
- Weak Layer
- New Snow/Old Snow Interface
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 46 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 46 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Intentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- Southeast
- Avalanche Problem
- Wind Slab
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2621 m
Triggered several small soft wind slabs in steep SE facing terrain at between 8600' and 8800' that once released, entrained a lot of loose new snow. Initial soft wind slab fractures were estimated 15-20' wide and 18-24" deep and easily entrained snow below breaking into a loose dry avalanche as it descended- the longest running a couple hundred vertical feet to the flats. Some major soft cornice formation and wind loading just below off easterly ridge lines.