Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 37°
Avalanche
- Weak Layer
- Density Change
- Trigger Type
- Natural
- Vertical Fall
- 213 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Trigger Detail
- Cornice Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- Northeast
- Avalanche Problem
- New Snow
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3048 m
Saw this avalanche off Scott's this afternoon, when I could get a glimpse of the slope during a lull in the ground blizzard. Looked to be cornice triggered earlier today and I'm assuming it was a natural since I was the only one in the area today. I could faintly see the crown, but not sure on depth because the wind loading from the SW was filling it in rapidly, but the debris pile was fairly clear reaching into the flats at the bottom of the slope, and piling up on the trees on it's way down. I'm also assuming it slid on a density inversion in the upside down new snow with a wind slab forming on it.
Photos were tuff to get today, debris in the trees and at the bottom, the broken cornice line on Scott's