Avalanche

Avalanche: Mt. Marsell

Gabe Morin/Ted Scroggin/Craig GordonUintas
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Avalanche

Slab Width
21 m
Weak Layer
Facets
Trigger Type
Natural
Vertical Fall
122 m
Avalanche Type
Wet Slab
Slab Thickness
61 cm
Trigger Detail
Cornice Triggered
Start Zone Aspect
Northeast
Avalanche Problem
Wet Snow
Start Zone Elevation
3322 m

Looks like a piece of cornice peeled off the ridge and gouged to weak snow in a shallow, rocky section of the slope.

Wet avalanches are a rowdy beast, stacking up bone twisting piles of dense, cement-like debris.