Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 14 m
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Slab Thickness
- 76 cm
- Start Zone Aspect
- North
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3200 m
I triggered a wind slab on one of the slopes between Rocky Point and Sunset peak this morning at approximately 10:15AM. The slab traveled 200+ feet, through a few groups of pine trees. I was safely able to ski out of the way after I saw some snow moving in front of me (at which time my partner also notified me of the slide on the radio) and cut left and looked back, when I realized I had avoided the moving snow by no more than ten seconds. Other skiers skied an adjacent slope skier's right of my line shortly afterwards, luckily nothing else was triggered. The slope was clearly wind loaded and had tracks at the bottom from days before, but the top was so loaded that no tracks were visible. There is a video on instagram but I am not able to post it here