Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 38°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 14 m
- Weak Layer
- Surface Hoar
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 30 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 30 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Unintentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- Northwest
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2499 m
bluebird, 20-25 degrees, wind very light from west.
Soft slab, north west, 8200 ft, crown broke off a roller ~38 degrees down onto a 30 degree slope, 1 ft. deep, 45 ft. wide, ran 60 ft, surface hoar on a hard layer,
nch thick knife hard crust with hoar on top
light old snow, soft with very variable pockets. some places was consistent and deep and some had two layers of hard crust @ 6 inches and 18 inches deep
a North West aspected mountain due south of Mt. Jardine. Logan/Green Canyon... Trigger was a hard stop and skier falling on uphill side, broke crown just below two other skiers.
may have been slightly wind loaded, it was a small clearing amongst trees
Considerable danger. You guys have been right on. we knew we were on a dangerous aspect and slope.
Incident
- Number Caught
- 1
- Number Carried
- 1
- Number Partly Buried
- 1