Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 40°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 46 m
- Weak Layer
- New Snow/Old Snow Interface
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 244 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 41 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Intentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- East
- Avalanche Problem
- Wind Slab
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3261 m
With new snow and winds we figured if we did something steep we wanted something that could be very effectively ski cut. This worked out as planned.
Of greater interest was a very large deep collapse we experienced on West facing West Scotties before our exit out Scottie's bowl. The smattering of deep slabs over the past couple of weeks we attributed to outliers associated with explosives or glide avalanches. This definitely was neither and will lead me to treat threats of wet deep slabs with the type of respect that I have for dry deep slabs.