Avalanche: Turnagain

Location: Eddie’s

Date:

December 3, 2021 6:02pm

Observer:

Chris Flowers

Route & General Observations

We watched an avalanche occur across the valley on the sunny side today at 1. I assume it was snowmachine triggered. Right cross valley from Eddie’s. Hope all are ok.

Where my mark is on Eddie’s, there is mid-storm debris from earlier this week that released on the upper buried surface hoar layer and left the lower (Halloween) layer in tact with the Veteran’s day snow still on it. I thought it noteworthy for two reasons:
It didn’t step down to the Halloween crust.
The surface hoar on the Halloween crust felt super sketchy (airy) and seems primed to reload and release again in the same path.

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Forecaster Comments

Thank you to Chris for passing along this photo and his info from Eddies - all snowmachiners are OK.

Avalanche Details

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Trigger	Unknown	Remote Trigger	Unknown
Avalanche Type	Soft Slab	Aspect	East Southeast
Elevation	unknown	Slope Angle	unknown
Crown Depth	unknown	Width	50ft
Vertical Run	unknown

Avalanche Details

Observed from across the valley, so unsure of many details or whether people were involved.

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I watched this avalanche and sympathetic release on Sunny Side around 1 today.

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