Avalanche

Avalanche: East Bowl

FinkSalt Lake
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Avalanche

Slab Width
18 m
Weak Layer
New Snow/Old Snow Interface
Trigger Type
Skier
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
51 cm
Start Zone Aspect
Northeast
Avalanche Problem
New Snow
Start Zone Elevation
3048 m

Triggered with cornice drop after causing adjacent and less-steep slope to collapse with a ski cut but no real result.

Failed at new/old layer on low-density rounds/graupel above the crust. Entrained a significant amount of new snow and ran about 350', D1.