Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 38 m
- Weak Layer
- Density Change
- Trigger Type
- Natural
- Vertical Fall
- 30 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 25 cm
- Start Zone Aspect
- Southeast
- Avalanche Problem
- Wind Slab
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3048 m
While going to investigate another avalanche, we stumbled onto this one. It is similar in nature to this other nearby avalanche. The pattern is a steep easterly facing wind loaded slope near the ridgeline. Both of these avalanches ran on a stout wind/sun crust. The big question for me was whether old faceted snow was involved. Even with a microscope, I could not definitively say facets were involved. These two slides simply look like a function of wind drifted new snow.