Avalanche

Avalanche: Red Baldy

ConeSalt Lake
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Avalanche

Slab Width
9 m
Trigger Type
Skier
Slab Thickness
10 cm
Start Zone Aspect
Southeast
Start Zone Elevation
3383 m

while kicking cornii during pre-ski evaluation, the team had a small (2"x30') windslab pullout on the headwall of icefall. The slab seemed to not have a lot of energy, but did have enough cohesiveness to give us pause. The team was happy to not get surprised when the snow adjacent to the original slide reacted the same upon entry ski cut.

This was relatively in line with expectations, as other (likely intra-storm) activity was noted off the same Ridgeline at same elevation, same aspect.