Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 35°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 46 m
- Weak Layer
- Facets
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 61 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 38 cm
- Start Zone Aspect
- North
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2987 m
Triggered easily from 10 feet back on 20 degree slope. Cracks from this slide continued up the ridge 200' on terrain too low angle to pull out. From the top it looked like this slide was about 40 meters wide, but when we went down to the bottom to check it out we found that below the rollover (where we couldn't see from above) it was actually about 80 meters wide. Lots of collapsing and cracking out there. Triggered a few other smaller slabs as well. Very touchy.
Forecaster Comments:
I added a photo taken by Ty Falk in another party, which I assume is the same slide described above.