Avalanche

Avalanche: Cutler Ridge

Derek DeBruinOgden
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Quick report

Slope Angle
42°

Avalanche

Slab Width
8 m
Weak Layer
New Snow/Old Snow Interface
Trigger Type
Skier
Vertical Fall
12 m
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
10 cm
Start Zone Aspect
North
Avalanche Problem
New Snow
Start Zone Elevation
2347 m

Stomped around today in various locations for cracking and collapsing in the harder wind slabs as well as some test slopes in the softer slabs. Only got reaction when we started skiing laps, one small slide pictured here on a steep (approx. 42 degree) rollover in a N facing gully a few hundred feet SW (skier's left) of the main Dead Tree shots.