Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 39°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 30 m
- Weak Layer
- Facets
- Vertical Fall
- 46 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 18 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Unintentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- North
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3048 m
Remotely triggered slide just off of and South of Twin Lakes Pass. SS-ASr-R3-D1.5 This bed surface had slid back in January and the snow since Thursday (now totaling 20 cm or 8") was sitting on top of very weak faceted snow. The near-surface facets that have been preserved underneath the Thursday snow really just needed a large enough slab to make them reactive. All my stability tests today indicated they required a fairly steep slope (approaching 40 degrees) to make them reactive.