Avalanche

Avalanche: Steam Mill/White Pine Canyon Ridge

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Quick report

Slope Angle
35°

Avalanche

Slab Width
38 m
Weak Layer
Surface Hoar
Trigger Type
Snowmobiler
Vertical Fall
24 m
Avalanche Type
Hard Slab
Slab Thickness
61 cm
Trigger Detail
Remotely Triggered
Start Zone Aspect
Northeast
Start Zone Elevation
2256 m

We remote triggered this nice Hard Slab avalanche from around 40' away. I was riding the sled on a popular backcountry route and Josh was skiing nearby on our way down for the day..... The avalanche failed and ran on buried persistent weak layers. In part of the crown, the avalanche stepped well below the very hard MLK ice-crust (1/16) running on the surface hoar/ nsf layer buried on 1/8/2011.