Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 41°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 38 m
- Weak Layer
- Facets
- Vertical Fall
- 76 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 91 cm
- Start Zone Aspect
- North
- Avalanche Problem
- Persistent Weak Layer
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2316 m
From the March 4, 2004 UAC Avalanche Forecast:
There was an extremely close call in Daley Canyon yesterday. Bruce was looking at the site of last week’s fatality when he noticed a very recent avalanche, complete with tracks leading into it and a burial hole. The slide was on a northerly facing, 41 degree slope, at 7600’. It was 120’ wide, up to 3’ deep, and failed on the January dry spell facets that were capped by a thin crust.
Incident
- Number Caught
- 1
- Number Carried
- 1
- Number Partly Buried
- 1