Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 35°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 18 m
- Weak Layer
- Density Change
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 137 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 25 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Intentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- North
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2896 m
Route was Alta to Dry Fork, Rocky Point, Tuscarora, Wolverine, Patsy Marley and out Grizzly Gulch.
Exceedingly active for ski cut
More ominous was a fracture line that looked like the top of a valentine. It failed, fractured, but didn't move. Northeast facing Patsy ridge into terrain above Twin Lakes. Slope angle perhaps just at or under 35 degrees. No buckling of stauchwall or flank fractures noticed, but the yawning crown that looked as deep as a crevasse. Likely to near the ground. Repeater territory.
Consider the commentary on triggering the new snow slides. Time to center-punch? Maybe not.