Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 37°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 21 m
- Weak Layer
- Facets
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 61 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 91 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Intentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- Northeast
- Avalanche Problem
- Wind Slab
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2835 m
Stepped onto the top of the bowl. Triggered what we expected, but did not expect to remotely pull out another pocket about 100 feet away. Second pocket was 1.5-2 feet deep but only about 50 feet wide. Both were freshly developed wind slabs with the new storm snow failing on the early season facets from the Nov 13-14 storm. Neither ran very far or very fast.
FORECASTER NOTE: This was within the Park City ski area which is closed and has the same snowpack that the backcountry does right now. Kobernik
The upper pocket is hard to see in the second photo. The debris is from the upper pocket. The more obvious pocket is the remotely triggered pocket.