Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 35°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 18 m
- Weak Layer
- New Snow/Old Snow Interface
- Trigger Type
- Natural
- Vertical Fall
- 244 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 30 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Cornice Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- Northeast
- Avalanche Problem
- New Snow
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2987 m
We were standing on the ridge line of South Monitor Bowl kind of in awe of the massive amounts of wind loading going on and witnessed a cornice calve off naturally and start a new snow slide. The location of the slide is exactly where I triggered a slide while skiing there two weeks ago. The weak layer was the rime crust from Thursday late night around 50 or 60ft wide and about a foot deep, it entrained all the new light density snow sitting on the rime crust from yesterdays storm and spread out a bit on its decent to the flatter terrain. I was kind of thinking it might steep down below the rime crust but the new light density did not yet have enough weight or a slab.
Photos: tough day for photos but got one looking down on the slide, and one with the slide and the whole bowl