Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 39°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 46 m
- Weak Layer
- Ground Interface
- Trigger Type
- Natural
- Vertical Fall
- 244 m
- Avalanche Type
- Glide
- Slab Thickness
- 107 cm
- Start Zone Aspect
- Northeast
- Avalanche Problem
- Gliding Snow
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2987 m
Goin' down the feelin' bad on west bound I-80 after a sunrise trail run in Round Valley. Of course, I'm trying to focus on my driving, but I see something unusual in the corner of my eye on the PC ridgeline that looks like a wet slab. Sure enough... it appears like a decent piece of snow peeled off the Squaretop rock slabs sometime in the past 24 hours. I gave PCMR Snow Safety Director Andy Van Houten a quick heads up and he snapped the image embedded in this ob. Not a particularly unusual event for the terrain or time of year. Like most us.... Squaretop is shedding its winter coat.