Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 38°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 11 m
- Weak Layer
- New Snow/Old Snow Interface
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 107 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 28 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Intentionally Triggered
- Avalanche Problem
- New Snow
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3170 m
Making my way to Cardiff Fork this morning, discovered that the new snow was not bonding well to the old snow surface, set off quite a few shallow soft slabs in Cardiff Bowl and on the ridge line from Cardiff Peak to the Key Hole entrance. Figured that the Key Hole would probably avalanche too, entered on skiers right and about 25ft off the ridge the slope fractured and propagated out about 30 or 40ft. The crown was from 10 to 12 inches in depth and the debris ran about 300-400ft. Not much of a surprise it pulled out, the clues were all there, recent avalanches, wind loading, and new snow not bonding well to the old surface.