Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 38°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 107 m
- Weak Layer
- New Snow/Old Snow Interface
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 152 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 30 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Intentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- North
- Avalanche Problem
- Cornice
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3536 m
6" of new, medium density snow with SE ridge top winds 15-20 mph with gusts into the high 20's. Just enough wind to move snow around and form sensitive cornices and soft wind slabs along upper elevation ridge crests facing N-NE. Intentionally dropped a few cornices that gouged into the loose snow, initiating some fairly long running sluffs. Found a section that looked more slabby and connected. Stomped on cornice and it released, pulling out a soft slab 350' wide. Isolated to the ridge crest, the slab tapered from 12" deep to 3" over a vertical span of about 20' though once moving, it entrained loose surface snow and ran for about 500' vertical feet.