Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 38°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 61 m
- Weak Layer
- New Snow/Old Snow Interface
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 46 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 30 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Intentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- South
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2896 m
We were downhill tunneling in upper east Willow fork today and found instablity at the small rollover toward the bottom of the slope. The first person in got a section of the slope to release. The density inversion and a rouge telemark skier caused the failure. The avalanche was wider than we first thought. Upon exmaination, we found the crown weaving itself through the aspen trees and bushes a couple hundred feet wide and about a foot to a foot and a half deep! It also sympathetically released a few small pockets totally seperate from the initial slide. The main avalanche didnt run very far because the runout zones slope angle decreased quickly into an aspen grove. I bet some of the steeper slopes went big today?