Quick report
- 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.