Avalanche

Avalanche: Twin Lakes Pass

MikeSalt Lake
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Quick report

Slope Angle
35°

Avalanche

Slab Width
24 m
Weak Layer
New Snow/Old Snow Interface
Trigger Type
Snowboarder
Vertical Fall
91 m
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
46 cm
Trigger Detail
Remotely Triggered
Start Zone Aspect
Northeast
Avalanche Problem
Wind Slab
Start Zone Elevation
2987 m

My partner and I rode a NE facing chute along the tree line and triggered 2 separate slides with crowns roughly 18" deep. We were out of the way, but they both ran a few hundred feet. While skinning out, we remotely triggered 3 more small slides from about 50 meters away (pics attached below). With the winds as strong as they were when we left out of the west, I would think tomorrow's danger would be considerable for deeper wind slabs at all elevations w/ significant snow NE through SE.