Quick report
Significant snow transport was occurring at upper and mid elevations. The slope where the slide occurred was cross loaded with a sun crust bed surface.
Avalanche
- Size
- D1
- Type
- HS
- Aspect
- NE
- Trigger
- AS
- Elevation
- 8200 ft
Avalanche was triggered by skier #1 just below the summit on Granite Mountain. Crown was 4”-6” and about 20’ wide. It ran about 400’. A smaller secondary slide was triggered by skier #2 with similar characteristics as the first, but only ran about 100’.