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Wind Slab

Published
Jan 2nd, 2022 6:00 PM
Matt McDonald
Spray - KLakes
Details

Type

avalanche

Coordinates

50.794630, -115.350950

Avalanche Information

Dropped in off pigs back. Hit a rock near the ridge and started stepping down to get around the rocks and triggered the wind slab on top of the crust. Slab depth varied between 5 and 40 cm. Failure was below the wind crust below the wind slab in the 20 cms of facets above the rain crust.