Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 36°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 46 m
- Weak Layer
- Density Change
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 91 m
- Avalanche Type
- Hard Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 30 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Remotely Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- West
- Avalanche Problem
- Wind Slab
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2865 m
We were ascending the ridge line that splits Scotties Bowl from West Scotties. We noticed shooting cracks propagating ~100ft and walked around the ridge to the West Scotties area above Scotties notch and saw that we had triggered an avalanche. We walked a few steps up the ridge and triggered another similar in character that peeled off into Scotties proper. The slide ran on a mix of graupel and storm snow (guessing prefrontal from yesterday afternoon). Crown ranged from 8 to 14in or so. 1F over F hardness. HS ASr R2 D2. Classic touchy windslab.