Avalanche

Avalanche: Red Baldy

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Avalanche

Slab Width
9 m
Weak Layer
New Snow/Old Snow Interface
Trigger Type
Skier
Vertical Fall
46 m
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
30 cm
Start Zone Aspect
West
Avalanche Problem
Wind Slab
Start Zone Elevation
3231 m

Found this slide on Saturday that was maybe triggered on Thursday or Friday. Looks like someone was skinning up the west side of Red Baldy and triggered it while going up. It looks like a few other fresh drifts had cracked but did not slide prior to this. It didn't look like anyone was caught.

Trent and I spotted pretty good plumes of wind blown snow Thursday morning from North winds. Today (Saturday) we walked on a few wind drifts and didn't get any cracking. It was pretty simple today with "go anywhere" conditions, just avoid fresh drifts which weren't very widespread.