Quick report
Skied hot pow on the last chopper out of Vietnam on the Northern. We were surprised to rip two relatively large wet slides on the way down. Additionally, we saw many small natural wet slides on N facing aspect. We weren’t sure why the N was ripping when the S was not. We hypothesized that the crust was different on different aspects.
Avalanche
- Size
- D2 R2
- Type
- WL
- Count
- 3
- Aspect
- SW
- Trigger
- AS
- Elevation
- 8400 ft
Two west facing wet slides. Ran 1200+ feet. From follow-up email with RP: "On the way out we observed maybe half a dozen slides on the NW facing slope above Dudley creek and triggered some small ones ourselves on the NW face above Hungry Horse creek.. No movement at all on the S facing steep rocky face above Hungry Horse creek. "