Avalanche

Avalanche: Days Draw

Brian Muller, Mark PuglieseSalt Lake
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Quick report

Slope Angle
40°

Avalanche

Slab Width
15 m
Weak Layer
New Snow/Old Snow Interface
Trigger Type
Skier
Vertical Fall
61 m
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
36 cm
Trigger Detail
Unintentionally Triggered
Start Zone Aspect
Northeast
Avalanche Problem
New Snow
Start Zone Elevation
2926 m

We found generally stable snow today, with the exception early in the day of touchy storm slab low down in days and some shooting cracks. That settled out quite rapidly, and on our run down from days draw things had trended to stubborn but on a bit of a steeper rollover I unintentionally triggered a 50' wide storm slab just over 12" deep. Afterwards, we noted the group that skied down in front of us triggered something similar, however a bit larger in size, and what appeared to be a size 2.