Avalanche

Avalanche: Mirror Lake Highway

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Avalanche

Slab Width
46 m
Weak Layer
Facets
Trigger Type
Natural
Vertical Fall
91 m
Avalanche Type
Hard Slab
Slab Thickness
76 cm
Start Zone Aspect
North
Avalanche Problem
Persistent Weak Layer
Start Zone Elevation
3200 m

Sorry for the poor quality photo. It looks like this avalanche started from a piece of snow from the ridge line that came down and triggered this slide. I could not tell if it broke into old snow?