Vail & Summit County

Avalanche

Anonymous · Apr 22, 2018 · Vail & Summit County

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Weather

Moderate winds, still cool (8:30 AM?), but warming in sun

Snowpack

Windslab over consolidated bed surface. Despite prevailing wind from N-NW on sat and sat PM , wind affected snow was very wide spread in mosquito-southern 10 mile zone above treeline

Avalanche

Skiers 1 and 2 aggressively ski cut the convex roll at top of line, with no results or fracturing of any sort. Skiers opted to ski right side of feature instead of gut. Avalanche occured 100’ into line, propagating down hill along the cross loaded ridge, on left margin of the chosen route. Slide broke in the new snow. Crown 4-6” deep, but with impressive downslope propagation. R1, D1