Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 42°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 76 m
- Weak Layer
- Wet grains
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 152 m
- Avalanche Type
- Wet Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 20 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Unintentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- Southeast
- Avalanche Problem
- Wet Snow
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2316 m
Top 800' of run was shallow but dry snow with the more southern facing side of the ridge being slight sun crusted. No red flags. When I dropped to the west off the crest of the ridge to get around a rockband, the snow immediately got really wet and big pinwheels fell below me. I skied back underneath the rock band and made one test turn, and a small pocket pulled out about 8" deep and 20' wide with the crown right under my feet. Within seconds the whole slope about 60' below where I was joined in and started to slide.
Lucky to be ok. Skied down the avy path and back to the car afterwards without any trouble.
Forecaster: I could see remnants of the avalanche on 4-9-2020