Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 37°
Avalanche
- Weak Layer
- New Snow/Old Snow Interface
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 41 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Unintentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- Southeast
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2957 m
Class 2 new snow soft slabs in God's lawnmower and Stairs W facing. South facing Road banks poping, running to the shoulder from 12:00 to 12:30. -m.
Incident
- Number Caught
- 2
- Number Carried
- 2
- Number Fully Buried
- 1
Spending a day getting caught up in the office nursing a cold, got a call from my buddy just after he dug out his partner.
Skining up the South side of Radar Love Bowl, they triggered a soft slab avalanche that took both of them for a ride. My friend said that they were spaced far apart on the skin and when he got to the steep breakover it ripped out above him and around into the Northeast facing timbers. Said he went for a 400' ride keeping above the debris and keeping his skis, his buddy was burried with his hand sticking out. After he dug out his partner out he called me incase someone else came by and called out a rescue, everyone was ok. I called Alta Central to relay the info. The guy who went for a ride lost his poles, so they eventually skied down to the Canyons after trying to find an alternative way out and running into more naturals around the area.