Avalanche

Avalanche: All Areas

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Slope Angle
35°

Avalanche

Slab Width
61 m
Weak Layer
New Snow/Old Snow Interface
Vertical Fall
244 m
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
91 cm
Start Zone Aspect
North
Avalanche Problem
New Snow
Start Zone Elevation
2743 m

Reports of widespread avalanche activity April 7 and 8, 2001 involving a layer of buried graupel snow. Most likely storm snow failing on a density change (possible mid-storm facets) within the new and wind blown snow with crown faces up to 6' deep in places. Word like "Big", "Wall-to-Wall", "Midslope" "Graupel Pooling"

Wolverine Cirque, Bountiful Peak, No Name, West Monitor, Stairs, Mineral Basin, Argenta, Bunnels, Slide Canyon, Cascade, Elk Pioint, Box Elder, Timp, Red Baldy, Lake Chutes Hogum, Maybird, Thunder Mountain, Crow's Feet, Cardiac, Mineral, Mill B South, Monte Cristo, Holy Toledo, Powerline, Broads, Alexander Basin.