Avalanche

Avalanche: White Pine

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Quick report

Slope Angle
36°

Avalanche

Slab Width
11 m
Trigger Type
Natural
Vertical Fall
12 m
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Start Zone Aspect
Northwest
Avalanche Problem
New Snow
Start Zone Elevation
3139 m

Went up White Pine this morning, spotted these two slides. They look to be from the last few days, and judging from the aspect they were probably caused by a combination of storm snow and wind activity. I'm not certain of that because I didn't see them go but I also didn't see any tracks there and those spots aren't seeing a bunch of sun.

Aside from those slides I found variable conditions from unbreakable crusts on lower elevation southern aspects to pretty decent if dense recrystallized stuff in the trees. I dug one pit facing North-Northwest at around 10000' that had a bunch of cruddy layers and almost no propagation, meaning only my shovel shear test failed after a little pulling. There was about a finger sized crust layer it failed at around 100 cm deep.