Avalanche

South Gully

Alex ZPresidential Range
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Quick report

Cracking
widespread

Storm slab on NE aspect. Was not reactive and seemingly dry loose snow when booting, but clearly reactive and a slab when skiing.

Weather

Cloud Cover
obscured
Wind Loading
moderate
Recent Snowfall
10
Snow Avail For Transport
moderate amounts

Avalanche

Size
D1 R1
Type
SS
Aspect
NE
Trigger
AS
Elevation
4921 ft

Booted up South on supportive and unreactive snow varying from pencil hard and wind scoured to soft and unconsolidated foot (but bot boot top) deep. Entered the line in a different way than I exited and immediately noticed small shooting cracks . Decided to travel towards the dish on the skier’s right that I had booted up on and knew had pencil hard scoured areas. Triggered a slab when traversing between skier’s leftmost “dish” at the top of south to the one on skier’s right. Skied the rest of the line without any signs of instability unsurprisingly since most of it is wind scoured.