Avalanche

Avalanche: Moonlight

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Avalanche

Slab Width
9 m
Weak Layer
New Snow/Old Snow Interface
Trigger Type
Skier
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
30 cm
Trigger Detail
Unintentionally Triggered
Start Zone Aspect
East
Avalanche Problem
New Snow
Start Zone Elevation
2835 m

Was trying to summit Santiago ridge in mineral basin and the skin track we were on stopped about half way up. We started putting a new skin track in attempting to gain the shoulder of moonlight. Made a poor decision trying to put the skin track up one part of a steep slope next to the main run and it failed on a thin rock and, propagated about 30-45 feet and about 12” deep to a crust layer. No riders were caught.