Incident

Avalanche: Reynolds Peak

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Avalanche

Slab Width
15 m
Weak Layer
New Snow/Old Snow Interface
Trigger Type
Skier
Vertical Fall
3 m
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
20 cm
Start Zone Aspect
Southeast
Avalanche Problem
Wind Slab
Start Zone Elevation
2896 m

Reynolds bowl middle sluffed about 8 inch by 60 feet wide from wind loading. Just under the cornice. Plenty of tracks from the previous days but the 2-3 inches of snow was drifted by winds over the peak and created a soft slab and that ripped down to yesterday's snow

Incident

Number Caught
1
Number Carried
1