Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 40°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 15 m
- Weak Layer
- Facets
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 305 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 41 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Unintentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- Northeast
- Avalanche Problem
- Persistent Weak Layer
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2987 m
- One avalanche remotely triggered from the ridgetop ran 1000' vertical feet that then sympathetically triggered another pocket(failing on NSF/SH)
- One avalanche triggered on slope catching and carrying the skier. This avalanche failed on small-grained facets (NSF/SH) (photo) and the skier was carried 100' vertical before self arresting
Incident
- Number Caught
- 1
- Number Carried
- 1