Avalanche

Avalanche: Check Your Pants

michael wardLogan
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Avalanche

Slab Width
30 m
Trigger Type
Skier
Slab Thickness
3 cm
Start Zone Aspect
Northeast
Start Zone Elevation
2621 m

Avoided the concave center punch like COVID19. With the red flags observed (weak layer, new snow, wind loading, cracking, collapsing, and the desire to ski powder), me and my partner concluded a remote trigger was likely. We farmed the safer lower angle flank until the obvious remotely occurred at 34 degrees. Not a huge slide, but it had five feet of deposition in traps. (ECT 5 observed in the crown.)