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Avalanche: Lake Fork Bowl

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Avalanche

Slab Width
18 m
Weak Layer
Facets
Trigger Type
Snowmobiler
Vertical Fall
38 m
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
91 cm
Start Zone Aspect
Northeast
Avalanche Problem
Persistent Weak Layer
Start Zone Elevation
2987 m

Wind loaded new snow. There was a bunch of snowmobile tracks below so we assume it was one of them that triggered it.

A place it looked like it was scraped down to the rocks and grass.