Avalanche

Avalanche: Argenta

Randy RasmussenSalt Lake
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Avalanche

Vertical Fall
213 m
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Start Zone Aspect
Northwest
Start Zone Elevation
3078 m

My partner and I where climbing up the Argenta slide path on an uptrack near the west side of the run. We were almost a top when we saw an avalanche coming down a steep, rocky, NW facing chute. We heard some celebratory sounding voices coming from the rigdeline. No one came down the slide path, nor did they answer our calls asking if they needed help. I assume if was human triggered, intentional or not I don't know, but no one appeared to be caught in it or hurt. It seemed to clean out the chute, the cloud briefly obscured the whole upper basin. None

Some big wind features at the top of the slidepath, lower down it was wind protected.