Avalanche

Avalanche: Humpy Creek

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Avalanche

Slab Width
76 m
Weak Layer
Facets
Trigger Type
Snowmobiler
Vertical Fall
183 m
Avalanche Type
Hard Slab
Slab Thickness
61 cm
Start Zone Aspect
North
Avalanche Problem
Persistent Weak Layer
Start Zone Elevation
3139 m

One of four different avalanches that a party in Humpy Creek triggered. Other avalanches were more difficult to photograph due to overhead hazard. Didn’t make contact with these folks so hopefully they have their own submission, at this point in their travels they were on public land. Notably, this was the same chute where a sled’s near miss was observed mid December.