Avalanche

Avalanche: Days Fork

CawleySalt Lake
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Avalanche

Slab Width
24 m
Trigger Type
Skier
Slab Thickness
41 cm
Start Zone Aspect
North
Start Zone Elevation
3109 m

We topped out the flagstaff skin track at about 530 tonight and found that someone had kicked a cornice into the skiers left Two Dogs pocket, triggering a well connected wind slab that had grown on the steep slope beneath the cliffs just right of where many people enter Two Dogs. We skied into Upper Days, climbed to the top of Main Days, and when we looked back at Two Dogs, it appeared someone had skied into the steepest part of Two Dogs directly off false Flagstaff and kicked off a bigger avalanche mid-slope, where there is an extremely steep convexity that often catches skiers off-guard. We never got close enough to see that one but we later saw an acquaintance who'd been in upper days at the time and he described it as looking like a close call.

We experienced an extremely loud collapse in the flats beneath Main Days. I haven't been paying close enough attention to understand what that could be, perhaps a layer of wet grains that didn't get a chance to freeze before an inch+ of SWE accumulated today?

Certainly heads up conditions out there with a lot of moisture, a lot of wind, and some eerie looking brown crusts underneath the storm snow.