Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 37°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 15 m
- Weak Layer
- Facets
- Trigger Type
- Natural
- Vertical Fall
- 183 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 46 cm
- Start Zone Aspect
- Northeast
- Avalanche Problem
- Wind Slab
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3200 m
Saw a total of two avalanches NE facing Rocky Point, the smaller one skiers left and the second larger slide came right off the top of Rocky Point started out about 40ft wide and propagated out to about 100 ft at it widest point. Crown was around 18 inches deep, and pretty much cleaned out the entire snow pack to the dirt quite always down the slope. Assuming it released naturally in the early AM, and they probably both released at the same time or one sympathetic the other. There were no tracks in the area. Slide obviously pulled out on the old faceted snow from a couple weeks ago, my thinking is that the wind and new snow overloaded the weak facets underneath. Nice debris pile in the island of trees at the bottom, definitely would have ruined your day. Photos starting zone, crown, Track and debris in the trees.
I also took a photo of the slide Todd triggered