Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 36°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 24 m
- Weak Layer
- New Snow/Old Snow Interface
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 53 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 20 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Remotely Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- Southeast
- Avalanche Problem
- Wind Slab
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2957 m
We were touring along guardsman pass area and saw a nice looking cornice above an obvious slide path off of guardsman road. After ensuring the path was clear of people, my partner approached the cornice and when he was about 10 feet from it, it remotely triggered the slide. It propagated around the corner from SE aspect to the due S aspect. Rapid wind transport was the main problem on this slope and due to this, I would not recommend traveling past the pass on guardsman road due to the chance of remotely triggering one of the steep slide paths that overhangs the road.