Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 36°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 30 m
- Weak Layer
- New Snow/Old Snow Interface
- Trigger Type
- Natural
- Vertical Fall
- 24 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 30 cm
- Start Zone Aspect
- North
- Avalanche Problem
- Persistent Weak Layer
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2621 m
I was in some low altitude terrain today and on my way to try to push on this slope but discovered it had already naturaled. The slide was about a foot deep, 100 ft wide, ran about 80 feet and contained about half of our new snow since the high and dry running above the melt-freeze. Some old growth dead fall stopped the slide. With that information and a cross reference with the snow stakes it looks like this happened on the 10th mid-storm cycle. I performed ECTs in the corner of the flank and crown and my tests failed below the melt-freeze between 11 and 14 taps. Although the entire block collapsed only half fell into the pit both tests.