Avalanche

Avalanche: Porter Fork

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Avalanche

Slab Width
12 m
Trigger Type
Natural
Slab Thickness
15 cm
Start Zone Elevation
2957 m

There were numerous large sluff avalanches all over Porter Fork today. Most ran on a density change 4-6" down but some entrained all new snow on top of the melt/freeze or sun crust. Average size was probably about 300' long and 15' wide but the largest was by Gary's Gully and appeared to have ran about 700' long and 40' wide. These sluffs were mostly triggered naturally, were present on all aspects, and had debris piles 2-3' deep.