Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 40°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 12 m
- Weak Layer
- Density Change
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 12 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 20 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Unintentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- North
- Avalanche Problem
- New Snow
After skiing the first pitch of the Maybird Aprons, we stopped above the little bowl like feature on the skier's right. I traversed out above the bowl and I noticed cracking that propagated out and released a small pocket at my feet right at the roll over. Ran on a pencil hard surface without a noticeable weak layer above it. Not big enough to be hazardous, but a good indicator of conditions. Also experienced a shallow soft slab that propagated a total of about 200 feet wide but only 3 to 4 inches deep. Ran in the steep bowl just below where the skin track usually hits the Red Pine/Maybird ridge (no photos).