Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 35°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 122 m
- Weak Layer
- Surface Hoar
- Avalanche Type
- Hard Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 36 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Unintentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- Northeast
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2804 m
lewis peak above wanship, pine meadows ranch, tollgate canyon - snowmobiled up west face to ridgeline just south of summit to ski ENE facing stella bowl
sympathetically triggered a 400' wide 12"-16" medium soft slab while approaching the top of bowl - 20' from the roll-over on ENE facing, 9200', 35 degree slope. observed significant cracking on less than 20 degree slope above - very sensitive snow failing on buried surface hoar on top of wind affected bed surface never experienced such sensitivity before in 20 years..
much of both on adjacent slopes E-N at very low angles