Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 38°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 152 m
- Trigger Type
- Natural
- Vertical Fall
- 183 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 61 cm
- Start Zone Aspect
- East
- Avalanche Problem
- Persistent Weak Layer
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3078 m
This avalanche was different than the other ones I saw today, it looked like it went into old snow and the crown was at least 200 feet down the slope. It looked like a new snow only slide started just below the ridge line then it stepped down a third of the way down the slope, it appeared to go on the same layer as Fridays skier triggered slide just to the east of it. It was quite wide stretching from Fridays skier triggered avalanche all the way around until the aspect turns SE facing. The debris pile was exceptionally large and ran quite a ways out on the flats almost going past the aspens.