Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 38°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 15 m
- Weak Layer
- New Snow/Old Snow Interface
- Trigger Type
- Snowboarder
- Vertical Fall
- 91 m
- Avalanche Type
- Wet Loose
- Slab Thickness
- 15 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Unintentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- Northeast
- Avalanche Problem
- Wet Snow
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3048 m
Unintentional slide triggered in the Gobblers/Butler Basin area this morning around 10am. The sun had been shining on the slope for approx. 2 hours prior, however the snow seemed fairly dry at the top. After a couple hundred feet I looked upslope and saw the slide moving at snail pace; it looked like someone had poured concrete down the slope. After moving safely away from the runout zone I hoped to get my camera out in time to capture a video, but was a bit too slow as the debris had just settled. My partner dropped the same line, hoping to examine the crown/sidewalls, and triggered two more smaller sluffs that ran on the original bed surface for a hundred feet or so. As we were leaving we noticed that two natural slides had recently occurred in the area; a wet slide on a southern aspect and a point release on an eastern aspect.