Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 40°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 24 m
- Weak Layer
- New Snow/Old Snow Interface
- Trigger Type
- Snowboarder
- Vertical Fall
- 46 m
- Avalanche Type
- Hard Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 15 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Unintentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- East
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3170 m
Did a couple of slope cuts to see if the wind deposit would hold and it seemed fine. Took a turn and everything started moving around me. It ripped out about 25 feet above me but I was able to quickly dig into bed surface and did not get carried very far. Seems to be pretty firm wind slabs forming from the 2-3 inches we got last night. Glad I was not above large cliffs!
Forecaster comments - Seems likely that the weak layer may have been the 4" of 4% snow from last Sunday that faceted over the past few days. Consistent with other reports...
Incident
- Number Caught
- 1
- Number Carried
- 1
- Number Partly Buried
- 1