Quick report
Remotely triggered multiple paths 500-1000ft wide ran full path and buried the road
Weather
- Air Temp
- 18
- Cloud Cover
- few
- Wind Loading
- light
- Recent Snowfall
- 14+
Mostly clear skies low wind upper teens temps
Avalanche
- Size
- D2.5 R3
- Type
- SS
- Aspect
- NE
- Trigger
- AM
- Elevation
- 5800 ft
Remote triggered three different slopes of the same aspect from the road above. Forecaster summary from conversation with RP: This was familiar terrain to the riders. They riders traversed below three steep, recently-logged slopes to get to low angle terrain above. At least one rider was already on the bench above when a later rider radioed that they'd just remotely triggered one of the bowls. Another bowl released as well, though it's unclear if that was from the same trigger. At some point, a steep road cut released above a rider, burying his snowmobile while he was sitting on it. They had to dig out parts of the skid road to get back to the main trail. The observer reported that he feels lucky that no one was caught. He did not think the bowls would go from that far away and maybe bury the entire party. He was surprised that the slide(s) took out the entire path. He noted "Anything can go. No matter the anchors or elevation, if the angle is steep enough."