Quick report
- Collapsing
- specific
some localized cracking and ~10ft "slides" on west facing rollovers above the tele bowls last night. Snow in the entrances only felt slightly heavy and not full on wind slab. Other skiers triggered a similar, probably slightly bigger, "sluff" in the other bardini yesterday morning, also entering through the steepest and most wind loaded line. The first line I skied this morning didn't sluff as badly as I expected and gave me false confidence. 7th tracks down bardini in the last 24 hours, but first tracks through this specific panel.
Avalanche
- Size
- D1.5
- Type
- L
- Aspect
- NE
- Trigger
- AS
- Elevation
- 9600 ft
Skier's -left line on skier's-right Bardini ("Bardini left" in the guidebook). Steepest and usually the most loaded line in skier's-right Bardini. Skied one lap ~15ft to the right and for the second lap traversed into the line ~20ft down skipping the rollover at the top. Stopped and let some sluff run ~20ft down, everything seemed good so I continued through the "choke". Noticed the heavy sluff (soft slab?) a moment too late and got caught, grabbed a tree and my arm was ripped off it, then pulled my airbag and was lifted out and stopped. Only carried 20ft without injury but it felt like I would have been carried to the bottom without the airbag. Lost one pole (fully buried somewhere in the debris)