Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 32°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 61 m
- Weak Layer
- Density Change
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 152 m
- Avalanche Type
- Hard Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 30 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Unintentionally Triggered
We were working our way down the ridge that runs North from Little Water Peak in Millcreek.
Partly cloudy, temps in the 20's, gusty ridge top winds from the Northwest.
Released a hard slab slide on a 32 to 34 degree slope as I skied across a small but wind crusted cornice. The slide broke out about 200 feet wide and ran about 500 feet with a 12 inch fracture. I did not take a ride as the slide broke just below my skis as I was going across the slope. The snow cracked below my skis
It appears that the wind crusted cornice I skied across was probably from yesterday and last nights winds.
I wasn't necessarily ski cutting the slope but I was staying away from the main slope so I could check it out since it was difficult to see from above.