Easily Triggered Small Slab on Rudi’s North

Morning weather was broken cloud, light precipitation and light winds. At Rudi’s Ridge above the chute snow and wind had picked up.

We kicked off a bit of cornice above a north facing chute just below the summit of Rudi’s Ridge. This pulled off a small slab (10-15 cm deep and 5 m wide) that ran the chute and entrained dry loose snow down the path to produce a size 1.5. The surrounding snow near the top was a bit more stubborn. We couldn’t set off a pocket of wind slab there.