Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 35°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 18 m
- Weak Layer
- New Snow/Old Snow Interface
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 46 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 20 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Unintentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- North
- Avalanche Problem
- Wind Slab
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3018 m
Soft slab of 1F hardness broke out behind a traversing skier the North side of Lake Peak above Boulder Basin. The slope angle was probably nearer 40 degrees where it broke out about 60 feet above the skier. There will probably be other such slabs triggered in the wind transported snow.