Avalanche

Avalanche: Emma Ridges

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Avalanche

Slab Width
3 m
Weak Layer
New Snow
Trigger Type
Skier
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
38 cm
Start Zone Aspect
South
Avalanche Problem
Wind Slab
Start Zone Elevation
2896 m

I was heading to the car off Emma's/Culps area in LCC. I hit a small area where the slope angle obviously increased, so I anticipated I'd get some sloughing. A couple of turns and I was out of the noted zone. Barely a 1; it failed on new storm snow, as expected.

It wasn't enough to knock you off your feet but I thought it'd be good to include the pics to show what was happening directly behind/adjacent to me. A good reminder, given multiple days of getting blanked with sun coupled by new storm snow, to quell the stoke a bit and take it easy over the next few days in high-consequence terrain.