Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 37°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 30 m
- Weak Layer
- Facets
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 244 m
- Avalanche Type
- Hard Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 61 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Remotely Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- Northeast
- Avalanche Problem
- Persistent Weak Layer
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2652 m
The heavy precip rates last night, accompanied by a few hours of strong winds and warm temperatures rapidly added a slab on top of the density inversion within the storm snow that started yesterday. This mornings burst of snowfall with the cold front added a bit more weight.
We were getting collapses often while sticking to the ridge today. Once we reached areas where the collapses were connected to steeper slopes with a cohesive slab, we started remotely triggering avalanches. We remotely triggered 4 or 5 from distances of 60m to 110m away. Fractures were running wide, and averaged 40cm deep. Visibility was quite limited during the day, but with what little we could see it was apparent a widespread natural cycle had occurred.
Avy danger was High last night into this morning, then lowering into Considerable later.
Photo 1: Location of our group next to trees when we triggered this slide, 110m away. (NE at 8700ft)
Photo 2: Woody surveying a couple more remotely triggered slides, SE facing in upper Slide Canyon, 8700ft. HS-ASr-R2-D2.5
Photo 3: Shoulder of Middle Finger. SS-N-R1-D2. (E at 9,000ft)
Photo 4: Bearclaw North Branch. SS-N-R2-D2 (ENE at 9200ft)
Photo 5: Gunsight and lower Cascade Cirque, D3. (SE at 10200ft)