| Trigger | Skier | Remote Trigger | No |
| Avalanche Type | Soft Slab | Aspect | North |
| Elevation | 2300ft | Slope Angle | unknown |
| Crown Depth | 6in | Width | 15ft |
| Vertical Run | 40ft |
Avalanche: Turnagain
Location: Tincan
Mostly stuck to the trees today, but tried to get a peak up into common bowl as the skies cleared a bit in the afternoon.
Avalanche Details
Triggered a very small wind slab at treeline on Tincan. We searched on wind exposed areas above treeline and were not able to find any other pockets of wind slab. At higher elevations I expect there were stronger winds and wind slabs were releasing easily.
Weather
Light snow in the morning and then clouds decreasing in the afternoon. Winds were light along our route.
Snow surface
About 6-8" of new snow with another roughly 10" of soft snow underneath before the melt freeze crust.
Snowpack
We did a set of pits at 2200' and then dug another at about 2400' to try and find an area with more wind transport. In all our pits we had easy failures (ECT N 5-10) at the interface of the new snow and the old snow surface about 10" down (25cm) but no propagation. The snow on top seemed too light and loose to be able to propagate a fracture. About 16" down (40cm) there was a stout melt freeze crust with large facets on top (see photo). These took more force to fail (ECT N 25) and also did not propagate in our extended column test. These weak layers of facets are still concerning but they did not produce any interesting test results today.
About 60-80 cm (24-30") of snow at the motorized lot.
Crown of a very small wind slab we triggered at treeline.
Lots of soft snow on the surface. The uppermost layer is the new snow from today and the two layers below are still soft but have been sitting on the surface for awhile.