Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 35°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 76 m
- Weak Layer
- Depth Hoar
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 91 m
- Avalanche Type
- Hard Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 76 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Remotely Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- East
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3292 m
While decending the slope coming-off the ridgeline and looking for thin weak snow I remotley triggered this slide which released some 70-100' away. It fractured in a steeper thin and rocky area and continued to pull-out snow in similar areas as it wrapped around the corner continuing to release snow. The slab was a combination of 4 finger to pencil hard and the weak layer was weak faceted snow at the ground.
Craig's forecast for the western Uintas has continued to talk of how we trigger slides from thin snow pack areas and not where it is deeper and stronger. I was a bit surprised to say the least when this slide was growing in size as I watched it pull out hard slab chunks and wrap around the corner.
The strong winds we received throughout the week have moved a lot of snow around and have created some deep wind slabs that are over loading these thin weak snow pack areas.