Avalanche

Avalanche: Doubletop Mountain

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Avalanche

Slab Width
61 m
Weak Layer
Facets
Trigger Type
Snowmobiler
Vertical Fall
152 m
Avalanche Type
Hard Slab
Slab Thickness
91 cm
Start Zone Aspect
East
Avalanche Problem
Persistent Weak Layer
Start Zone Elevation
2896 m

A third person report from Dean Harris. Thanks for reporting this. Actually three or four avalanches, one of which looks like it naturally occurred before the others were triggered. Looks like a rider triggered one pocket and the others also sympathetically released. Nobody was caught.