Avalanche

Avalanche: East Bowl

A ScharffSalt Lake
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Avalanche

Slab Width
305 m
Weak Layer
Facets
Trigger Type
Skier
Vertical Fall
152 m
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
91 cm
Trigger Detail
Remotely Triggered
Start Zone Aspect
Northwest
Avalanche Problem
Persistent Weak Layer
Start Zone Elevation
3078 m

While setting the skin track up the Honeycomb ridgeline, we heard a large collapse and saw propagation about 20' away on the East Bowl side. We were able to get a better view of it further up the ridge. Looked to be a dry slab avalanche with 1-3' crown, ~1000' wide and running ~600' towards the bottom of the bowl. We didn't have the best view for photos. The two attached are from the start location near our skin track, and the bottom 8 photos are an additional set of photos from the ridge. This avalanche width was approximately from East Bowl Pass to Flanagans.