Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 36°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 61 m
- Weak Layer
- New Snow/Old Snow Interface
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Avalanche Type
- Hard Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 91 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Unintentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- Southeast
- Avalanche Problem
- Wind Slab
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3200 m
Saw this slide triggered this morning on SE facing LSB, not sure if they were trying to ski it or just got too far out on the slab while hiking. Winds were blowing from the NE in the strong category transporting snow from NE facing LSB onto the SE facing. The crown was 3.5ft at it deepest and tapered down on the ends. The crown revealed that it was a pencil hard wind slab that ran on the old frozen melt freeze crust. Hard to tell how far it ran, but from what I could see it ran down to where the gully rolls over and beyond. The people that triggered it were not caught and returned back to Cardiff Peak via the skin trail.