Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 38°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 14 m
- Weak Layer
- New Snow/Old Snow Interface
- Trigger Type
- Natural
- Vertical Fall
- 183 m
- Avalanche Type
- Wet Loose
- Slab Thickness
- 25 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Cornice Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- East
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2621 m
saw this as we were hiking in. There were a few similar point release slides from the ridge that all ran shorter or similar
lengths. Entrained just new snow. The green-housing may have been responsible as it was seemingly hot by midday.
Toby Weed (4-16-2012)
I took a couple more photos of the natural avalanche from a closer perspective a couple days after it avalanched...