Vail & Summit County

Avalanche

Kyle Sovada · Dec 19, 2020 · Vail & Summit County

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Avalanche

Witnessed two small skier triggered slides on isolated ENE aspects at around 11,700ft. SS-ASu-R1D1-I Slide 1 initiated above the skier at rock outcroping and slid on pencil hard layer. And slide 2 was slightly smaller and initiated as skier rolled over wind loaded pocket, also on new to old interface sliding on pencil hard layer. Lots of snow transport in this location, as you can see in photo, by the time we took a photo, it had already filled in with more wind transport snow.