Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 34°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 27 m
- Weak Layer
- Facets
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 122 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 46 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Remotely Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- West
- Avalanche Problem
- New Snow
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3018 m
From a safe location, we were deskinning about to ski cut the slope when the slope settled and broke loose. It first broke about 20 feet above us and about 30-40 feet to the side, and then another broke loose about 100-150 feet above us and about 100 feet to the side. we checked out the crown a little a few minutes after but decended the slide path quickly as we were worried something or someone above us would set off another one on to us.
FORECASTER COMMENTS: Judging by the depth and being able to see nuerous layers, I speculate that this took out the last two storms worth of snow and failed on faceted snow formed Nov 24 to Dec 2.