Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 37°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 61 m
- Weak Layer
- Density Change
- Trigger Type
- Natural
- Vertical Fall
- 244 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 46 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Cornice Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- Northeast
- Avalanche Problem
- New Snow
- Start Zone Elevation
- 3018 m
Saw this avalanche in the centerpunch of S Monitor around 2:00pm, it was bad visibility all day but got a sucker hole and saw this soft slab that released from a natural cornice drop. The slide was around 200ft wide with a foot and a half crown, ran full track well out onto the flats. It failed from lots of wind loading on a density inversion that I was seeing all day. In non wind loaded terrain the density inversion was about 6 to 8 inches down, denser snow sitting on lighter density, in wind loaded terrain like S Monitor it was over a foot down and stayed reactive throughout the day.
photo: bad light bad photo