Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 38°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 30 m
- Weak Layer
- New Snow/Old Snow Interface
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 122 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 61 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Unintentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- Northeast
- Avalanche Problem
- Wind Slab
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2591 m
Skied 2 prior runs on same aspect without incident. Ski cuts and jumping on slope rollovers produced no results on these runs and on similar slopes leading to the slope that slid. On the third run a ski cut less than 40 yards away on a slope of the same aspect and steepness produced no results. The third slope released as skier 1 entered slope. Skier 1 was able to ski off of soft slab to the right and stop against a tree after traveling about 100 ft downhill. Skier 1 was knocked over at edge of slide, not buried or injured. This area that slid was steeper and more wind loaded than the other 2 slopes skied. The slide ran on the new snow old snow interface.
Photos of crown and upper edge of debris field.
Incident
- Number Caught
- 1
- Number Carried
- 1