Avalanche

Avalanche: 10420

AmblerSalt Lake
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Avalanche

Slab Width
9 m
Weak Layer
New Snow/Old Snow Interface
Trigger Type
Natural
Vertical Fall
76 m
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
25 cm
Start Zone Aspect
Northeast
Avalanche Problem
New Snow
Start Zone Elevation
3139 m

It looks, from lower on the ridge, to have potentially been a small soft slab triggered by a tree bomb. It then ran a couple hundred feet blending into what looks like older avy debris. Pitcured first is the crown and then the debris

In other news we observed some loose wet action on solars at mid to lower elevations and felt/heard a large collapse with shooting cracks just off the guardsman pass road about a thousand feet from the pass on bcc side. Large striated cups < 5mm estimated, very unconsolidated. In a wind affected area with hs varying from 30cm to 300+ cm (huge road drift).

Pictured below - roadside loose wets and shooting cracks