Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 21 m
- Weak Layer
- Surface Hoar
- Trigger Type
- Snowboarder
- Vertical Fall
- 15 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 30 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Unintentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- East
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2469 m
Dean rode over a roll on a fairly low angle slope near the Whites Bedground Road and triggered a small soft slab avalanche. He said he was surprised at how low angled the slope that he triggered was.... "This was completely a surprise after riding steeper and bigger hills all morning."
"The avalanche wasn't very big and probably wouldn't have been much of a problem even if it caught someone"....
He said that around the about same time, "we saw tracks from someone riding right up under the cornice of Three Terraces" a huge upper elevation wind-drifted avalanche path on Providence Peak.