Avalanche

Avalanche: Snake Creek

Trent MeisenheimerSalt Lake
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Quick report

Slope Angle
39°

Avalanche

Slab Width
30 m
Weak Layer
New Snow/Old Snow Interface
Trigger Type
Snowmobiler
Vertical Fall
30 m
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
25 cm
Trigger Detail
Unintentionally Triggered
Start Zone Aspect
Southeast
Avalanche Problem
New Snow

Sorry for not getting a picture, it was dark on my way back to Brighton and it didn't show up on the camera. Looks like a snowmobiler was sidehilling when a steep convex roll avalanched.

It looked to me (total speculation as I did not look at it up close) that it ran on an old sun crust. It was a small avalanche but had a decent debris pile that could of knocked you over or perhaps rolled you a time or two.