Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 107 m
- Weak Layer
- Ground Interface
- Trigger Type
- Natural
- Vertical Fall
- 457 m
- Avalanche Type
- Glide
- Start Zone Aspect
- East
- Avalanche Problem
- Gliding Snow
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3261 m
This avalanche on the Diving Board appeared to happen yeasterday, or sometime during the end of the storm the crown and debris looked fairly fresh. I'm assuming it was a glide avalanche due to the location and the crown up in the rock slabs above the Diving Board, and also the warm wet storm. Wind loading might also have contributed seeing that the slope has been getting wind loaded for days, today included. The photo is poor quality due to flat light and a dropping cloud deck but the debis made it to the drainage bottom and spread out over most of the slope. There was also a glide avalanche in the usual place on lookers left above the small trees
photo: the crown in the center of the photo in the rock slabs directly above the diving board and the longest running part of the debris.