Avalanche

Avalanche: Skyline

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Quick report

Slope Angle
38°

Avalanche

Slab Width
152 m
Weak Layer
Facets
Trigger Type
Natural
Vertical Fall
91 m
Avalanche Type
Hard Slab
Slab Thickness
91 cm
Start Zone Aspect
East
Avalanche Problem
New Snow
Start Zone Elevation
3048 m

Too many avi's to list one at a time, Big Drift, Wedding Ring Ridge, Spring Creek, Lake Fork, Staker Canyon, in multiple places, cornice falls and slabs both pulling out during the last storm with totals of 3"-4" of water and 45 cm of new snow, coupled with nuking winds that followed at end of storm and the day after made today the Tour de Carnage with activity all over the place, so I grouped this class all together, will add another ob for the treeline cycle that also occurred, Lots of photos, but the theme is the same, weak existing shallow pack overloaded by shear weight of 3"-4" of water, and the typical Skyline WSW winds producing an extensive avalanche cycle during the storm, some areas blown back in with lower density snow that fell on tail end of storm