Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 35°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 21 m
- Weak Layer
- Facets
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 213 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 61 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Unintentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- Northeast
- Avalanche Problem
- Persistent Weak Layer
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2987 m
Saw this avalanche today on Scott's Peak, must have been triggered either Monday or Tuesday because I was in the area late Sunday and it wasn't there. There where tracks going in and coming out. From the looks of it, it was triggered about a fourth of the ways down the slope and quite a ways above the entry tracks the exit tracks were about 40ft down. Looking at the crown from a distance and the obvious wind loading on slope it appeared to run on the PWL at the bottom of the pack. It ran full track through a bunch of pine trees and took out a few on the way down.