Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 21 m
- Vertical Fall
- 30 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 41 cm
- Start Zone Aspect
- Northeast
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2926 m
avalanche was on a NE facing aspect around 9500 feet or so, I believe I pinpointed the location on the map. I was only able to look at it from a distance, but it appeared to be around a foot and a half deep, 70' wide, and maybe a hundred or so feet in elevation. It was a soft slab, and I did not notice any tracks in or out, so it could have either been a natural, or triggered from a natural cornice fall.
After continuing skinning, we stopped and dug a pit. I will hopefully be able to give you guys a full picture of the pit today, but our results in this pit, which was on a West facing aspect of Gobblers, approximately 500 vert below the summit. On an ECT, we had full Q2 propogation at 45 cm, on facets just below the MLK crust. On two seperate CT's, we had results of 12 and 18, on a layer I had detailed in my obs yesterday, but am not recalling at the moment, as these were Ian Nicholson's CT's. What I do remember about the layer, I believe 30 cm down, was that on doing temperature gradients, in the 10 cm around this higher crust and possible facet layer, was a 1.7˚ C TG, telling me this crust region was trending towards more faceting.