Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 15 m
- Weak Layer
- New Snow/Old Snow Interface
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Trigger Detail
- Unintentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- North
- Avalanche Problem
- Wind Slab
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2987 m
Found a shallow soft slab and took an unpleasant ride. Cut the rather benign looking gulley at top and thought all was good. Cracked out after a couple turns. Tried to reach rib on right but didn't make it. Fought like hell to self arrest and managed to stay on top after tumbling a ways. Thought skis and poles were buried but found them all down slope. Glad I was not skiing with toe pieces locked.
Incident
- Number Carried
- 1