Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 40°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 61 m
- Weak Layer
- Facets
- Vertical Fall
- 137 m
- Avalanche Type
- Hard Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 91 cm
- Start Zone Aspect
- Southeast
- Avalanche Problem
- Persistent Weak Layer
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2896 m
We came into Christmas tree bowl from the north and were surprised to see this avalanche on a south east aspect. we had been riding on the same aspect of several slopes thinking they were the safest, so it was a bit sobering to see the slide on the same aspect we had been riding all day.
I got a view of this significant avalanche from Naomi Peak on 2-8-2013 and took a couple pictures...