Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 45°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 122 m
- Weak Layer
- Density Change
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 183 m
- Avalanche Type
- Hard Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 91 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Unintentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- West
- Avalanche Problem
- Persistent Weak Layer
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2896 m
We approached the slide area via an existing track. Passed a snow pit that showed the many weak layers. The track passed near what we all knew to be a slide area just a little further south. Our weight made the hard layer collapse and radiate toward the slide are which broke loose with significant speed, noise, popping and cracking. The slide traveled out of our sight down the mountain and stopped about 150 due south of the BC yurt. It had widened to several hundred yards at the bottom and the deposition area was over 6 feet. Very powerful avalanche!