Avalanche

Avalanche: Moab

Casey BatemanMoab
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Avalanche

Slab Width
91 m
Weak Layer
Facets
Trigger Type
Natural
Vertical Fall
183 m
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
61 cm
Start Zone Aspect
Northwest
Avalanche Problem
Persistent Weak Layer

While out and about today I noticed a large natural avalanche triggered in Exxon's Folly. Size and scale were hard to tell but, the slide looked like it ran almost the full track. The take away from this observation is that the shape of the crown was distinctly puzzle piece shaped and looked like snow from last night trigger a slide that stepped to a weaker layer below. Again the size of the crown was hard to tell but I imagine it was probably about 2' taking the new snow as well as the snow from last week and failing on the weaker faceted snow from earlier in the season