Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 38°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 46 m
- Weak Layer
- Facets
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 30 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 38 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Remotely Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- North
- Avalanche Problem
- Persistent Weak Layer
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2926 m
Triggered avalanche remotely from ridgeline. Several hundred yards earlier we collapsed a similar slope and saw cracking (crown, flanks and would-be stauchwall) of a piece of snow that didn't quite slide.
Noticed another soft slab avalanche on Lackawaxen (east facing off Clayton peak) that also looked to have run today on PWL.
also collapsing in lower elevation (8,800') north, and even in upper elevation southwest. Photo of snow structure 9800' SW below