Avalanche

Avalanche: Red Pine

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Avalanche

Slab Width
12 m
Trigger Type
Natural
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
30 cm
Start Zone Aspect
West
Avalanche Problem
New Snow
Start Zone Elevation
2987 m

Small soft slab avalanche involving new snow from the storm observed at around 7:30am. It happened in a long skinny chute, so the debris pile was deep. A friendly reminder that even small slide can be deadly in the right terrain. We also had a lot of collapsing and cracking on Northern through western aspects around 8500 feet in red pine canyon before observing the slide from across the canyon.