Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 40°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 46 m
- Weak Layer
- New Snow
- Vertical Fall
- 152 m
- Avalanche Type
- Cornice Fall
- Start Zone Aspect
- North
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2896 m
Since Monday, 2/28/11, there have been 2 major cornice falls on the ridge west ot Raymond between points 9661 and 9776. Monday night's fall was natural, about refrigerator size and ran 300 to 400 ft. entraining quite a bit of surface snow. Last nights fall, also apparently natural was SUV size, again entraining a lot of snow and taking out two fair sized trees (8-12" trunk diameter). This one ran about 500 ft. This cornice was an old, hard cornice and ended up quite a bit down the slope. There were no tracks on the ridge so I am quite sure the cornices fell of their own weight.