Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 18 m
- Weak Layer
- Facets
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 61 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 51 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Unintentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- Northeast
- Avalanche Problem
- New Snow
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3109 m
As we approached for a second lap in the Catchers Mitt a separate party triggered a decent size avalanche off the ridge on their way to the summit. It appears it started as a wind slab/storm slab then after it ran into a thin shallow rocky spot it stepped down into what I believe was old faceted snow. The crown at the wind slab portion was 10-20 inches deep, then at the steeper portion of the slope it stepped down to 3 feet deep in places and about 60 feet wide in total width, running a few hundred feet producing a fairly decent debris pile. The avalanche took out a portion of the skin track and covered ski tracks from earlier in the day. Luckily nobody was underneath at the time it avalanched, as there was about 10-15 people in the area. Busy day in the Wasatch mountains.