Quick report
Absolutely no signs of instability seen outside of where the avalanche was triggered. A member of my group attempted to trigger an avalanche in a different area (same aspect, similar angle) by jumping and was unable to trigger anything. Crust from before the storm acted as a sliding layer in the avalanche that was triggered.
Avalanche
- Size
- D1
- Type
- SS
- Aspect
- NW
- Trigger
- AS
- Elevation
- 4480 ft
d0.5-1 avalanche soft slab avalanche. Misjudged a convexity due to the presence of trees and slid down about 20ft. While sliding, the avalanche almost knocked into a tree (where most of the snow was caught and stopped sliding), but luckily just missed it by about a foot. Managed to stay above the avalanche so no burial, though my feet were covered in about 2-ish feet of snow when the avalanche came to a stop. Snow was soft and before seeing the crown I thought it might have been a weirdly large dry loose. The rest of my group came down the same route (we made the judgement that would be the safest line given that the avalanche had already released on that surface and the area below that convexity was lower angle and lower risk) and they found themselves skiing over crust. We skied the rest of the day in low angle terrain and did not see any other signs of instability at all outside of where I triggered the avalanche.