Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 1067 m
- Weak Layer
- Facets
- Trigger Type
- Natural
- Vertical Fall
- 305 m
- Start Zone Aspect
- Northeast
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3078 m
Here is a photo from a distance on Dec 31 after 5 to 7 inches of snow fell on top of the bed surface.
Here are some closer photos after the east wind event that occurred on Jan 1, 2016. The wind has stripped all of the new low density snow off the bed surface. It may have blown some of the facets out of there also.
This was a massive avalanche that snapped off a bunch of good sized trees and also 'flagged' (broke branches) trees up to around 30 feet in the air.
Below is a photo of a couple of trees that were snapped off about 25 feet above the ground. Perhaps just the wind blast ahead of the avalanche did it.