Incident

Avalanche: Superior

Owen GehlingSalt Lake
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Quick report

Slope Angle
40°

Avalanche

Trigger Type
Skier
Avalanche Type
Wet Loose
Trigger Detail
Unintentionally Triggered
Start Zone Aspect
South
Avalanche Problem
Wet Snow
Start Zone Elevation
3048 m

We climbed from cardiff and topped out on superior just after 1030am, and decided that we were okay to ski the south face even though it had been super warm all morning. We dropped in around 1045, and found wind and sun affected snow on the upper section. The snow got more consistent, and wetter, as we got farther down. I ducked into an unskied chute to skier's right of the main descent route. I wish I had a better way of describing where this is, but it was a super fun chute. 40 degrees plus for a couple hundred feet with a choke 2/3 of the way down, wide enough for skis. The stoke was running high and I did a very poor job of managing the slough. About halfway down I got knocked to my bum trying to make a turn, and then carried ~50 feet (through the choke) by the slough. Totally uninjured, I wasted ten minutes looking for a pole that had gotten carried 100 feet below me and partially buried.

Incident

Number Caught
1
Number Carried
1