Avalanche

Avalanche: Cardiac Bowl

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Quick report

Slope Angle
35°

Avalanche

Slab Width
21 m
Weak Layer
Facets
Trigger Type
Natural
Vertical Fall
244 m
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Start Zone Aspect
Northeast
Avalanche Problem
Persistent Weak Layer
Start Zone Elevation
3322 m

Also viewed this slide today in Cardiac Bowl, looks to have happened yesterday. Pretty much the same path that pulled out in a close call earlier this winter. You can just make out the tongue of the debris pile in the sun, the rest of the slide was obscured by the shade.