Quick report
- Cracking
- isolated
Newly formed wind / storm slab on ridge very sensitive. Triggered with ski cut on ridge. Observed shooting cracks in this isolated area, obvious signs of significant transport to northern aspect at ridge. Ran slowly into trees below, only 100’ or so. Observed isolated cracking on northerly aspect. Transported snow quickly forming dense slabs. Shooting cracks under foot.
Weather
- Cloud Cover
- obscured
- Wind Loading
- intense
Avalanche
- Size
- D1.5 R1
- Type
- SS
- Aspect
- NE
- Trigger
- AS
- Elevation
- 9500 ft
Skier triggered isolated soft slab ran from ridge line into trees. Slow moving but deeper slab than anticipated — lot of spatial variability as many aspects only holding limited soft snow above crust due to wind transport. Northern aspects