Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 44°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 76 m
- Weak Layer
- Facets
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 152 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 38 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Intentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- North
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2652 m
A couple very experienced backcountry skiers purposely triggered this large avalanche with a well-placed ski cut at the very top of the very steep west entrance chute. The avalanche was intentionally triggered, but it was much bigger and more dangerous than expected...
The avalanche occurred in the very same slide path that killed local skier, Mark Miller in similar early season conditions back in 1989....
The avalanche included the entire western half of the bowl, leaving the larger eastern half still sitting there.
The avalanche ran well into the flats below the bowl, piling debris deeply against the sparse trees in the run-out, and over-running the site of the historic avalanche fatality.....