Avalanche

Avalanche: Chicken Hill

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Avalanche

Slab Width
122 m
Weak Layer
Facets
Trigger Type
Natural
Vertical Fall
91 m
Avalanche Type
Hard Slab
Slab Thickness
91 cm
Start Zone Aspect
East
Avalanche Problem
Persistent Weak Layer
Start Zone Elevation
2591 m

Natural from the last storm cycle, perhaps overnight? Not certain of that though. Also lots of evidence of wind transport on open S facing slopes that wasn't there yesterday afternoon.

Two natural avalanches are pictured, and it looks like the one to the north (~200' wide) happened more recently than the one on the left (south, ~400')