Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 36°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 91 m
- Weak Layer
- Facets
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 76 m
- Avalanche Type
- Hard Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 61 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Unintentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- Southeast
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2499 m
"Remote skier triggered, ESE aspect, 36-38 degrees, 8150' elevation, hard slab with 8" of soft wind deposit on top, 1-3' crown,
"Initial crown at rocky convexity, and and propagated along minor ridge south of slope. Hard slab broke into several pieces and slid approx 150 yards along slope."
"South wind depositing snow on top of bed surface. Not quite corniced, not quite pillowed, somewhere in between.
The weak depth hoar layer is approx 5" above terra firma on top of hardpack.
The UAC rating was high, extending to the ESE aspect of this slope."