Incident

Avalanche: White Pine

JordanSalt Lake
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Avalanche

Slab Width
15 m
Trigger Type
Skier
Slab Thickness
91 cm
Start Zone Aspect
Northeast
Start Zone Elevation
2682 m

We dug a pit about 300' below the zone on the same aspect and found the snowpack to be well bond together in all the upper layers. After deciding to carry along to our zone we had the first person in our group of 4 drop into his line and trigger a slab avalanche down to the base layer and get carried over a small cliff in the outrun. We got really lucky today and no one was majorly harmed or even buried, but definitely a learning experience for all of us. I can't upload any pictures so I'll try to submit a separate observation with those

Incident

Number Caught
1
Number Carried
1