Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 35°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 9 m
- Weak Layer
- Facets
- Trigger Type
- Natural
- Vertical Fall
- 18 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 51 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Sympathetic Release
- Start Zone Aspect
- Northeast
- Avalanche Problem
- Persistent Weak Layer
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2926 m
I think this slide was a natural from windloading, we saw it pull out from a quarter mile away but the snow is so sensitive right now it possible that it was a sympathetic release from the other slide we remotely triggered not sure. This slide broke on facets above the October crust which was still fairly stout in the bed surface. This slide also produced shooting cracks across the parts of the slope that did not slide. The last photo is a large shooting crack we created by collapsing the ridgeline on the other side of the bowl