Gorge 15

Quick report

Weather

stormy, foggy, windy, wet

Ride Type

openTrees, steepSlopes, denseTrees, mellowSlopes

Stayed Away

steepSlopes, alpineSlopes, convexSlopes

Riding Quality

good

Snow Conditions

powder, crusty, wet, windAffected

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSound, avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionSnow

Touchy storm slab conditions on Saturday. We were noticing slabby feeling snow on the uptrack and decided to play around on some test slopes. Got lots of shooting cracks and a couple small .5's to let go on convex rolls. decided to change our plan for the day instead of riding the main face or chute we were just going to ride near the uptrack, approaching the summit we ski cut another slope and heard a giant whomph and remote triggered a size 2 in the bowl lookers left of the uptrack at the summit at 15k.

Weather

Wind Speed

windSpeedModerate

Blowing Snow

light

Snowfall Rate

1

Wind Direction

NW

New Snow24 Hours

15

Precipitation Type

snow

Snowpack

Site Aspect

NE

Site Elevation

2000

Cracking Observed

1

Site Elevation Band

tln

Whumpfing Observed

1

Avalanche

Run Length

100

Slab Width

40

Trigger Type

skier

Wind Exposure

crossLoadedSlope

Avalanche Size

2

Slab Thickness

30

Trigger Sub Type

remote

Start Zone Aspect

NE

Trigger Distance

15

Vegetation Cover

sparseTrees

Start Zone Incline

30

Avalanche Character

windSlab, stormSlab

Crust Near Weak Layer

1

Number Of Avalanches

1

Start Zone Elevation

2000

Runout Zone Elevation

1900

Avalanche Observation

24to48hrsAgo

Weak Layer Crystal Type

stormSnow

Start Zone Elevation Band

tln

Avalanche Occurrence Datetime

2023-04-08T11:30:00.000Z

20-30cm depth at crown about 40 meters wide dissapeared into the fog coulndt see all of it so could be larger we saw trees shake a good distance away. Ran on last weeks sun crust