Avalanche

North off of Ant Hill/Russ's Street

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Quick report

Cracking
specific

Moderate to gusty winds during yesterdays storm has built up sensitive soft slab in north facing fetch. With this ob it's safe to assume all North facing terrain should be given a wide birth until after Tuesday/ Wednesday warm up of this upcoming week.

Avalanche

Size
D1.5
Type
SS
Aspect
SW
Trigger
AS
Elevation
6400 ft

D 1 skier triggered off north facing leeward slope just off the bottom 3rd of the "Ant Hill" off the top of Big Mountain. Ski cut triggered six or seven inch soft slab to propagate 100 plus feet across top of entire slope and run to the bottom.