Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 37°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 76 m
- Weak Layer
- Density Change
- Trigger Type
- Natural
- Vertical Fall
- 137 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 36 cm
- Start Zone Aspect
- Northeast
- Avalanche Problem
- New Snow
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3048 m
Spun a few predawn laps on the Milly side of Brighton. As the light improved I noticed a surprisingly well connected, natural soft slab in the upper bowl. Upon investigation I found the storm snow reactive to my additional weight and while isolated, got a few steep sections of my uptrack to collapse and produce shooting cracks. Not the kind of big booming collapses you hear early winter, but enough to let you know there's a buried weakness underfoot. A mid storm inversion seems a likely suspect resulting in a very active day in both BCC and LCC.