Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 38°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 137 m
- Weak Layer
- New Snow/Old Snow Interface
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 122 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 13 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Unintentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- Northeast
- Avalanche Problem
- Wet Snow
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3139 m
After the skier entered the narrow part of the run and made a turn on the wider section the new storm released above the skier. The skier was able to to ski out of path of the avalanche. The crown was only 5" but propagated roughly 450' wide. The debris pile was about 4' deep at the bottom. There was no evidence of wind slab and this was clearly the new snow/old snow interface. No one was caught or buried.