Avalanche

Avalanche: Salt Lake

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Slope Angle
39°

Avalanche

Slab Width
6 m
Weak Layer
New Snow
Trigger Type
Skier
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Slab Thickness
10 cm
Trigger Detail
Intentionally Triggered
Start Zone Aspect
Northeast
Start Zone Elevation
3261 m

We noticed this goat-triggered avalanche on a SE slope near the summit of Lake Peak. The avalanche looked to be ~100 wide and ran for about 400'

At this entrance we lopped a Gene Simmons tongue of a cornice, sending several hundred pounds of snow to the bottom but failed to trigger a slab avalanche. Upon looking over the edge we noticed a nearly buried crown line, though it was hard to guess it's age or on which weak layer it had failed.

Ski cutting into most north-facing side of the gully, I triggered a shallow soft slab of freshly wind-deposited snow. By late morning the wind was transporting significant amounts of storm snow, though most new deposits were F to 4F hand hardness.