Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 3 m
- Weak Layer
- Facets
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 46 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 30 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Unintentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- North
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3048 m
Kessler Peak, Northwest Couloirs
Light snow, light to moderate wind at ridge from the southwest.
Northwest facing. Softslab / ground (shallow snowpack). 9500ft (give or take). 12 inch crown across narrow couloir (eight feet wide). Victim traveled for 100 feet (and through a 20-foot steep rocky section). Slide went for additional 50 feet past the point where the victim stopped.
Full report here
Incident
- Number Caught
- 1
- Number Carried
- 1
- Number Partly Buried
- 1