Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 32°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 12 m
- Weak Layer
- New Snow
- Trigger Type
- Natural
- Vertical Fall
- 46 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 25 cm
- Start Zone Aspect
- East
- Avalanche Problem
- Wind Slab
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3048 m
The avalanche happened a few seconds before I took the picture. The east facing slope was being rapidly wind loaded upwards. We saw a second avalanche on the same slope some 10 minutes later.