Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 39°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 30 m
- Weak Layer
- New Snow/Old Snow Interface
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 91 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 33 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Unintentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- Southeast
- Avalanche Problem
- New Snow
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2926 m
Cardiff Pass; Cardiff Shoulder: Party of one: Avalanched on ski cut broke through trees. So took a different line and slab let loose while skiing the line. Heavy snow got churned up like Rodeo time, as well partial burial (did not deploy airpack but not easy getting free). Ejected from both skis and had to dig to find skis and poles. This was operator error, I should have taken a less steep line. Everything 39 and steeper was going all the way even through the trees, impressive
So, don't go there; lines look inviting but death slide while getting wrangled feel like a bar brawl. Never been in one because don't drink, but got worked over for sure including whacking a few trees.
The snow up there is scary, I skied down the run out zone to get off because everything i touched was letting loose.
Forecaster note/photo below: arrows showing skier triggered slides in what I think is the area of this slide.
Incident
- Number Caught
- 1
- Number Carried
- 1
- Number Partly Buried
- 1