Quick report
- Cracking
- specific
- Collapsing
- specific
no other signs of instability while skinning through the forest that was peppered with tree bombs, even on steep small slopes @ ~40º
Avalanche
- Size
- D1.5
- Type
- SS
- Count
- 2
- Aspect
- SE
- Trigger
- AS
- Elevation
- 10800 ft
2 X D1.5 1 x D2 10,800, SE ~37º, open slope at the edge of forest, NTL Avg 40cm deep Storm slab failing on crust facet sandwich Before the slides released, the slope fractured repeatedly, >10X's with more and more spiderweb cracks before the 3 avalanches finally released. All 3 triggered remotely at the same time from 100 to 200M away from the low angle ridgeline above the slides.