Avalanche

Avalanche: Days Fork

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Avalanche

Slab Width
8 m
Trigger Type
Skier
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
20 cm
Trigger Detail
Cornice Triggered
Start Zone Aspect
North
Avalanche Problem
New Snow
Start Zone Elevation
3078 m

I purposely cut a cornice off that triggered a soft slab avalanche that ran 150+ feet and varied in how much it took with it. Cornice was fairly larger than refrigerator size and ran the distance of the avalanche and left a large crater on the slope. Slope was above a couple cliffs so amount of snow was small. I also did this with a smaller cornice on an adjacent slope than also ran 70+ and was 10 feet wide. Lots of sluffs everywhere that were small. There was also what seemed to be a natural slide in what I believe is Jaws 2.0 that was 10+ ft wide and ran <100 feet.