ski cut avalanche Aggie

AVALANCHE OBSERVATION mount aggie Drainage: McGee Creek
Submission Info Sam Orsello Monday, December 10, 2018 - 3:00pm

Red Flags:

Recent loading by new snow, wind, or rain

Avalanche Type:

Slab

Slope:

35degrees

Trigger type:

Skier

Crown Height:

Less than 1 ft

Aspect:

Southeast

Avalanche Width:

50ft.

Terrain:

Above Treeline

Avalanche Length:

1 500ft.

More detailed information about the avalanche:

Suspected reactive wind slab, aggressively ski cut upper slope wich resulted in a small slab avalanche (crown of maybe 4 inches) the resulting slide entrained a fair bit of loose snow and caused several other pockets of wind slab down slope to slide. slide ran approx 1500 feet D1+

Blowing Snow:

Yes

Cloud Cover:

75% of the sky covered by clouds

Air temperature:

Below Freezing

Wind Speed:

Moderate

Air temperature trend:

Cooling

mount aggie 37° 32' 48.3072" N, 118° 50' 29.2596" W

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