Avalanche

Kebler Zone

Jeff BanksGunnison
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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.