Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 15 m
- Weak Layer
- Facets
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 25 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Cornice Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- North
- Avalanche Problem
- Wind Slab
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3109 m
Saw this ridiculous looking cornice and couldn't not throw my Paracord around it, from a safe distance, anchored to a tree, ensuring no body below... This slope is different from most ski slopes in upper days in that is unsupported from below because of steep rocks cliffs, so it easily gives up cornice falls triggering wind slabs that then gouge to the ground and run to the flats.
It looks like two dogs experienced a cornice fall trgrd windslab that did not dig deeper and only slid partway down the slope.
Photo1 deadly cornice overhanging certain avalanche
2 runout and rocks exposed
3 cornice break, crown below and two dogs natural outlined