Avalanche

Avalanche: West Bowl

KobernikSalt Lake
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Quick report

Slope Angle
37°

Avalanche

Slab Width
122 m
Weak Layer
Facets
Trigger Type
Natural
Vertical Fall
152 m
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
46 cm
Start Zone Aspect
North
Start Zone Elevation
3048 m

This avalanche was reported a couple of times since it was originally viewed on Monday, Nov 14th.

Mark White and I took a closer look of it today. Same deal as all the rest, facets from October were the weak layer. The interesting thing here is, as far as we could tell, it was a natural avalanche which makes it one of very few from the Sunday slide cycle. There were no ski tracks anywhere along the ridge to indicate it may have been human triggered. I speculate it ran late in the storm on Sunday.