Quick report
- Collapsing
- widespread
Following the avalanche, we continued traveling in low angle East, Southeast, and Northeast terrain and observed several more large collapses, always when multiple were grouped together.
Avalanche
- Size
- D1
- Type
- SS
- Aspect
- E
- Trigger
- AF
- Elevation
- 10400 ft
Remote trigger from bottom of slope. First skier had traveled the slope along the skiers left flank and was below and to the side when a different skier stepped out of his ski and postholed, triggering a large collapse which initiated the avalanche. Time of trigger was 1145am, ski pen was 2-4 cm. This was the first collapse we observed for the day.