Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 38°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 61 m
- Weak Layer
- Facets
- Trigger Type
- Natural
- Vertical Fall
- 914 m
- Avalanche Type
- Hard Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 91 cm
- Start Zone Aspect
- North
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2987 m
Looking like the other big piece up high in Stairs Gulch got some wind loading yesterday. Looked like the weak layer was the old NSF. Ran to the big bend, 3,000'+. Propagated snow off the west faces as it fell. Stairs has slid twice in the last week, and has probably snowed more there than anywhere in the canyon.
New glide avalanche in the Diving Board in NE facing Broads.
last photo by Eric Wright