Lawine

Avalanche: Bear Trap

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Avalanche

Slab Width
9 m
Weak Layer
New Snow/Old Snow Interface
Trigger Type
Skier
Vertical Fall
30 m
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
36 cm
Start Zone Aspect
North
Avalanche Problem
Wind Slab
Start Zone Elevation
2804 m

Small avalanche was intentionally triggered by releasing a cornice on small windloaded ridgeline just north of beartrap aspens. The cornice cracked ~2 feet back and triggered a 30' wide slide into the pines and ran for about 100'