Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 38°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 15 m
- Weak Layer
- New Snow/Old Snow Interface
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 15 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 13 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Sympathetic Release
- Start Zone Aspect
- North
- Avalanche Problem
- Wind Slab
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2957 m
We had a small pocket wind slab release sympathetically [forecaster comment: possibly remotely triggered] while sidestepping up the windward side of a small cornice area. The wind was blowing out of the south for most of the day loading this slope. We were exiting the upper Red Pine lake area and were navigating our way out of lower Red Pine, this happened on the pitch descending onto the lower lake.
Large surface hoar was observed in the lower elevations.