Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 38°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 15 m
- Weak Layer
- Depth Hoar
- Trigger Type
- Snowboarder
- Vertical Fall
- 91 m
- Avalanche Type
- Hard Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 61 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Unintentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- Northeast
- Avalanche Problem
- Wind Slab
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2957 m
We set out today to dig around in the snow and see what the new snow was doing. I was putting a skin track in on the windward side of the ridge and it was rather scoured. There were two ridges that met at the trigger point and it was loaded. I thought I was high enough above the steep part of the slope that it wouldn't release, but I triggered it. It failed on facets (on the ground) and was a hard slab at the failure location.