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Avalanche: North Castle Rock

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Quick report

Slope Angle
38°

Avalanche

Slab Width
91 m
Trigger Type
Natural
Vertical Fall
183 m
Avalanche Type
Wet Slab
Slab Thickness
76 cm
Trigger Detail
Cornice Triggered
Start Zone Aspect
East
Start Zone Elevation
2896 m

There was another big slide just North of Castle Rock. It looks like it was triggered by a cornice fall but it released a slab approximately 300 feet wide and ran 600 vertical. The slab looked like it failed on the dirty layer from the storm a couple of weeks ago. There were not large chunks of cornice in the debris like on the Cornice Ridge slide. I am guessing the cornice fall was not as large as the Cornice Ridge slide. The alpha angle on this slide was 22 degrees.