Avalanche: Turnagain

Location: Magnum, Lipps and Tincan

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CNFAIC Staff
Route & General Observations

Recent wet slab avalanche activity all seen on Friday, May 20, 2022.

Avalanche Details
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Trigger NaturalRemote Trigger Unknown
Avalanche Type Wet SlabAspect Unknown
ElevationunknownSlope Angleunknown
Crown DepthunknownWidthunknown
Vertical Rununknown  
Avalanche Details

Several natural wet slabs that most likely released late on May 19, 2022. Some are quite deep.

Photos show 3 on Magnum (2 on north aspect and 1 west). One on the northerly aspect of Lipps and one on a northerly aspect of Tincan (no photo).
All slab start zones are in the 2000-2500 ft elevation band.

Thank you to George Creighton for the images!

Photos & Video
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Magnum  

Another of Magnum with Sunburst older glide-wet slab in background  

Magnum west face. Right side old glide.  

Lipps lower north aspect  

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