Avalanche

Avalanche: Baldy

Mike PetersonSalt Lake
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Avalanche

Slab Width
15 m
Slab Thickness
30 cm
Start Zone Aspect
North
Start Zone Elevation
3200 m

Wet slide with decent sized chunks of debris, entraining at least one fairly large boulder. The first of our party down Main Chute watched the debris and boulder spill out of the bottom of Little Chute at 7pm.

He and another skier skinning up Collins were able to yell up to me as I was exiting Main to beacon search the debris pile. I searched and got no signal and felt like I probably could have seen if anybody had been carried and partially buried. The skinning skier also came up and searched the debris pile.