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Glory Lower West Ridge

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Cracking
isolated
Collapsing
isolated

Skiing trees of Lower West Ridge, found a small pocket of wind-slab that ran and triggered a much larger section of wind slab. SS-ASu-D1.5-I Witnessed lots of snow transport from W winds throughout the day at all elevations where the terrain wasn't sheltered.

Avalanche

Size
D1.5 R2
Type
SS
Aspect
SE
Trigger
AS
Elevation
7600 ft

SS-ASu-D1.5-I. Small wind slab trigger sitting on crust triggered, then traveled into heavily wind-loaded terrain and triggering a slide that propagated across the entire wind-effected feature, entraining quite a lot of snow.