Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 12 m
- Weak Layer
- New Snow/Old Snow Interface
- Trigger Type
- Snowboarder
- Vertical Fall
- 30 m
- Avalanche Type
- Wet Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 5 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Unintentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- East
- Avalanche Problem
- Wet Snow
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2530 m
This little avy took me by surprise today. We dropped in at about 9000 feet on a couple of inches of dryer snow. By the bottom of the run the snow had grown substantially heavier and wetter. About 2 turns into this steep rollover and the slab fractured around me.
Luckily it was only about 2" deep and a relatively short slope and I was able to point it and get out of Dodge. The slide ran into the trees and piled up 2- 3 feet deep. Probably not big enough to bury someone, but definitely could have been painful being a tree's piñata. A good reminder that even on a moderate day, things can get spicy with weather changes.