Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 36°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 213 m
- Weak Layer
- Depth Hoar
- Trigger Type
- Natural
- Vertical Fall
- 244 m
- Avalanche Type
- Hard Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 137 cm
- Start Zone Aspect
- East
- Avalanche Problem
- Persistent Weak Layer
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3170 m
1. I would guess this avalanche on Double Hill ran sometime during last weekends storm and strong west winds. 2. This slide looked like it was packing some steam with the debris running almost to the flats and taking out some smaller evergreen trees. 3. As with many of these bigger slides, they are failing on weak faceted snow near the ground.
The conditions today were quite nice with many areas having some nice cold settled powder on shady slopes. The upper elevation sunny aspects even had nice snow with some lower elevations getting a little damp. The last storm snow has settled out nicely and I was finding nice supportable riding and turning conditions in the Whitney Basin.