Avalanche

Avalanche: Huntsville Valley

Doug WewerOgden
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Avalanche

Slab Width
15 m
Vertical Fall
3 m
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
25 cm
Trigger Detail
Intentionally Triggered
Start Zone Elevation
1768 m

Then went for a tour above Nordic Valley in the afternoon. Experienced numerous collapses just walki

On our descent, took a whack at a road cut with my ski pole and triggered a shallow soft slab in the new snow (up to 10" deep), propagated up to 40 feet (see RoadCut_1 photo). Continued down the road cut and basically got the whole thing to slide, 10 to 50 feet at a time... (see RoadCut_2 photo).