Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 11 m
- Weak Layer
- Density Change
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 30 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 30 cm
- Start Zone Aspect
- Northeast
- Avalanche Problem
- New Snow
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2987 m
I was skiing this shot around 6 PM, near the bottom of the chute, there were some exposed rocks and it made me take a hip check, needing to regain my feet. I did this very quickly but as I began moving again a wall of heavy snow smacked me from behind and carried me (on top) about 100 vertical until I was able to cut hard enough to escape the flow and ski out to the skiers’ left.
This was a scary, eye opening experience and I hope people can learn from it. I’m generally pretty conservative with risk and I very much underestimated the green housing and very slick bed surface that exists.
Incident
- Number Caught
- 1
- Number Carried
- 1