Valanga

Avalanche: East Bowl

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Avalanche

Slab Width
12 m
Weak Layer
New Snow
Trigger Type
Snowboarder
Vertical Fall
91 m
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
25 cm
Start Zone Aspect
Northwest
Avalanche Problem
New Snow
Start Zone Elevation
3109 m

Entered East Bowl run from the ridge a few hundred vertical below the summit. Performed a horizontal ski cut to test the slope, and a 10 in deep soft slab broke at the old snow-new snow interface beneath my edge and propagated about 40 feet wide. I let the avalanche run and rode safely back to the ridge.