Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 46 m
- Weak Layer
- Graupel
- Trigger Type
- Natural
- Vertical Fall
- 91 m
- Avalanche Type
- Hard Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 41 cm
- Start Zone Aspect
- Northeast
- Avalanche Problem
- New Snow
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2926 m
Little Water Peak has seen a couple of slides in the past week, the most recent of which is the data entered. Looks like the entire bowl, except perhaps the small subridge between the two sides of the bowl, slid to the ground in the early part of the storm, perhaps as early as Friday night or Saturday morning as a fair amount of new snow had built back in. Then the center of the bowl looked to natural again, new snow only, later in the storm, perhaps Saturday night or Sunday. So portions of the bowl have about 2.5 feet of new snow on top of what is left of the old depth hoar, with the portion that slid having about a foot of snow on top of a small amount of depth hoar. Photos below: 1) the crown along the ridgeline of the most recent new snow slide, 2) the track with debris from the most recent slide in the foreground and rough debris from the deep slide just visible at the bottom, and 3) photo of the snow left on the bed surface with a couple notes.