Avalanche
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Trigger Detail
- Unintentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- South
- Avalanche Problem
- New Snow
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2591 m
While touring around Ant Knolls was able to see 8 distinct crowns while looking across the Snake Creek drainage to the south facing aspect. I marked them on the photo. The avalanches ranged from SE, S, SW aspects and look to range in elevation from 9200' to 8300'. The two lower avalanches (marked in orange) had a skin track going up one (lookers right) and ski tracks going down the other (lookers left). Unsure if they were skier triggered or happened before or after.
I assume the bed surface was from a melt freeze crust, which got some very cold low density snow just before the higher density snow came in during the recent storm cycle.
Porter
Saw this from across the valley but didn't see the tracks going into it till we got home and zoomed in on the photo. There were numerous natural avalanches on this southerly face above the Snake Creek road, and one with tracks going in. All appear to be storm snow at the new/old interface, but it's hard to tell from so far away across the valley. Hopefully whoever was involved in this slide is ok, it looks like they skied off the slab to the skiers right side.
Photo 1 is the skier triggered slide, Photo 2 has many crowns across the southerly slope above the skier triggered one.