Incident

Avalanche: Cardiff Bowl

Mark WhiteSalt Lake
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Avalanche

Slab Width
305 m
Weak Layer
Graupel
Trigger Type
Skier
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
30 cm
Trigger Detail
Unintentionally Triggered
Start Zone Aspect
Southeast
Avalanche Problem
Wind Slab
Start Zone Elevation
3109 m

[Forecaster Comment - Received this information from Mark White, and I have translated. Any errors are my responsibility. G Gagne]

"1000 to 1500ft wide, foot deep unintentionally triggered, got dragged down about 40ft and made my way to the side, broke out on graupel resting on the old snow surface."

"I am thinking the slab was more dense and connected later in the day, due to wind and maybe humidity. It propagated way farther than I would have ever thought due to the pockety nature of all the other activity we saw earlier."

SS-ASu-D2

Incident

Number Caught
1
Number Carried
1