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Avalanche: Cardiac Bowl

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Avalanche

Slab Width
9 m
Weak Layer
New Snow/Old Snow Interface
Trigger Type
Skier
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
15 cm
Start Zone Aspect
Northeast
Avalanche Problem
New Snow
Start Zone Elevation
3200 m

Ski cutting skier's left side cardiac bowl early on 11/26, before most of the precip arrived.

Some small cracking on up-skin, localized to right around the skis. No movement.

Was able to trigger this one superficial, soft slab, right along the rocks at the top of the slope, which propagated across path and ran about 40ft, but did not step down into any layers below.