Avalanche

Avalanche: South Monitor Bowl

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Quick report

Slope Angle
35°

Avalanche

Slab Width
30 m
Weak Layer
New Snow/Old Snow Interface
Trigger Type
Skier
Vertical Fall
61 m
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
30 cm
Trigger Detail
Sympathetic Release
Start Zone Aspect
North
Avalanche Problem
Wind Slab
Start Zone Elevation
3018 m

Was walking the ridge of South Monitor after I had already done a run, knocked out a small wind slab skiers right of the peak which intern released a larger wind slab to the right of that. The crown varied from a foot at its deepest to around 5 inches where it tapered off on the flanks, ran a couple hundred feet down the slope until it got down out of the wind loading. A hard bed surface underneath aided in the length it ran. Photos, a few of the crown, one from the debris pile down slope because I dropped my camera and it didn't stop sliding until it hit the debris, and one of some of the debris.