Quick report
- Cracking
- widespread
- Collapsing
- specific
We heard loud wumfing throughout the day, both skinning and skiing. Shooting cracks during our skin up, and a remotely triggered slab avalanche. We noticed widespread wumfing during both skinning and skiing. It was quite loud, and reminded me of thunder. We experienced shooting cracks on the skin track, and slab instability with quick hand pits.
Weather
- Cloud Cover
- overcast
- Wind Loading
- none
Snowpack
We skied this same area last weekend and the notable surface hoar seems to have created a notably reactive interface.
Avalanche
- Size
- D1.5 R3
- Type
- SS
- Aspect
- NE
- Trigger
- AS
- Elevation
- 4370 ft
We watched the group in front of us, who were setting the skin track, remote trigger a notable slab avalanche.