Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 38°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 18 m
- Weak Layer
- New Snow/Old Snow Interface
- Trigger Type
- Snowboarder
- Vertical Fall
- 183 m
- Avalanche Type
- Wet Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 30 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Unintentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- North
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2652 m
The slope I was about to ride looked suspect - somewhat wind loaded hanging field rolling off into very steep terrain. I chose not to gut the intended line and instead I made a few hard turns on a safer looking subridge. The wet slab broke loose about 30 feet to my right - in the middle of the originally intended line. I let it pass and it took the majority of the snow in the chute down with it, piling up about 6 feet deep at the bottom. This one started out as a pretty small and shallow slab but it brought down a lot of thick heavy snow made a pretty big mess at the bottom.