Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 24 m
- Weak Layer
- Facets
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 61 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Remotely Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- North
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2926 m
Some of the weaker snow we've seen across the range. Rime crust was intermittent at best with the three slides. Photo below examining the structure at the fracture line. We remotely triggered two slides while walking the ridgeline, with the second sympatheticing another slide to the west.
The photo below shows the sympathetic release on the slope further to the west. It has a bit more of an easterly component to it.
This ridgeline had it all - weak snow, lion's share of the southwesterly-flow snowfall with some windloading - though not a ton. The location of a fatality I believe in 1994? -