Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 35°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 12 m
- Weak Layer
- New Snow/Old Snow Interface
- Trigger Type
- Natural
- Vertical Fall
- 152 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 38 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Cornice Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- East
- Avalanche Problem
- New Snow
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3048 m
Went up the East face of Kestler early Friday morning and noticed these slides that had occurred overnight. The bigger looked to be a cornice drop that had initiated it above the notch of the "Mitt" and had occurred probably not long before we got there. The other off the cliff band looked like some natural sluffing that had occurred during the storm. Didn't ware out our welcome as we noticed wet activity starting by about 10:00am. I left around 11:00 and did not notice the slide that Mark White had posted. I'm thinking the way things were changing fast, it happened soon after I left.