Quick report
- Cracking
- widespread
- Collapsing
- isolated
A weak, relatively shallow, faceted snowpack below all the new snow and wind loading over the past 3 days made for the perfect recipe for avalanche activity in steeper terrain today. I was not skiing this slope but I triggered it from the ridgeline above. Snow King's backcountry terrain has a very faceted snowpack, with all the new snow, it's beginning to show all the class 1 data for structure failure.
Avalanche
- Size
- D1.5 R2
- Type
- SS
- Aspect
- N
- Trigger
- AS
- Elevation
- 8000 ft
Was skiing the NE side and Slashed a turn on the top of this slide path and triggered the slide down into the North side, was not involved in the avalanche other than triggering it at my feet.