Avalanche

Avalanche: South Monitor Bowl

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Quick report

Slope Angle
36°

Avalanche

Slab Width
15 m
Weak Layer
New Snow/Old Snow Interface
Trigger Type
Skier
Vertical Fall
213 m
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
30 cm
Start Zone Aspect
Northeast
Avalanche Problem
New Snow
Start Zone Elevation
2987 m

I was looking at the crown of another avalanche just up the ridge and when I pulled my head out of the hole I noticed that someone had just triggered this slide in the center punch of the bowl. When I got there to look at it the person was gone and there were tracks down the debris. The skiers left side of the bowl had already been skied fairly hard, that being said the skiers left is lower angle and gets way less wind loading than the more northerly part, where the slide was triggered.