Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 6 m
- Weak Layer
- New Snow
- Trigger Type
- Snowboarder
- Vertical Fall
- 274 m
- Trigger Detail
- Unintentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- East
- Avalanche Problem
- New Snow
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2957 m
Three of us went out the gate on top of 9990 and made our way over to the Cinder Chutes, just above Saddleback. My buddy (snowboarder jumped into the middle chute, the entire thing immediately cracked and started sliding on him. He easily outran the debris, but it ran all the way out to the bottom of the slope. I couldn't safely get close enough to see the crown depth and get good pictures, but you can see the debris in this picture taken from below the run. The snow pack was fairly stable, but there was a bunch of new windblown snow that had settled into the cinder chutes, making them dangerous.