Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 37°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 30 m
- Weak Layer
- Facets
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 183 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 46 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Remotely Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- Northwest
- Avalanche Problem
- New Snow
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2560 m
Craig and Shaun take a look at Saturday's slide. A very experienced crew with decades of backcountry knowledge and safe travel practices were surprised (as was I) by a slide they triggered mid-slope, on a low elevation (8600'), northwest facing slope in the Mill Hollow zone.
Breaking about 18" deep and 100' wide, the slide failed on a layer of weak, sugary, near surface facets formed on 1/23 and buried during last weeks storms.
Even a small avy is powerful enough to break a Quaky.
Looking downslope from a 37 degree starting zone
Incident
- Number Caught
- 1
- Number Carried
- 1
- Number Partly Buried
- 1