Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 37°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 137 m
- Weak Layer
- Surface Hoar
- Trigger Type
- Natural
- Vertical Fall
- 76 m
- Avalanche Type
- Hard Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 61 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Cornice Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- North
- Avalanche Problem
- Wind Slab
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2621 m
I was a bit surprised to run into this broad fresh wind slab, but it was on a heavily drifted slope... Southwest winds found plenty of soft snow to transport, and the south side of the ridge was scoured down to rocks. The hard slab avalanche was 1 to 3 feet and 400 to 500 feet wide and it stacked up a considerable pile of debris in the trees below. Most of the avalanche stopped after only running 50 vertical feet or so, but parts ran quite a ways further through the trees.