Avalanche

Avalanche: Emma Ridges

SDSalt Lake
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Avalanche

Trigger Type
Skier
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
61 cm
Start Zone Aspect
South
Avalanche Problem
New Snow
Start Zone Elevation
2926 m

I was skiing solo and was noticing isolated spots where the storm slab was very reactive, and other spots that were just sluffing. On my second lap I skied down about 600' and looked back and saw a big cloud of snow chasing me down, I cut hard left out of it's path, I estimate it ran about 500', possibly longer. I expect any instabilities on solar aspects to settle by 2/23, the reactive slabs seemed very isolated.