Valanga

Avalanche: Main Bowl

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Avalanche

Slab Width
30 m
Weak Layer
Facets
Trigger Type
Natural
Vertical Fall
122 m
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
61 cm
Start Zone Aspect
North
Avalanche Problem
Persistent Weak Layer
Start Zone Elevation
3139 m

This avalanche most likely released naturally during the pockety natural cycle. There is a slight chance that it was remotely triggered by snowmobilers from below. This is a site of a snowmobile fatality in 1998.

There were numerous other small pockets around upper Pleasant Creek that released on the 28th. Photo below is nw facing above Skyline Drive.

North facing pocket between the main bowl and BBQ Bowl.

Pocket above the road that cuts out of Pleasant Creek to the Skyline Drive. Debris stopped and piled up on the road.