Avalanche: Turnagain

Location: Tincan common bowl Shadow Line

Date:

November 9, 2018 7:48

Observer:

Anonymous

Route & General Observations

Climbed to hell pad, six inches new on wind crusted previous snow, noticed wind lip at top of Common bowl on approach. Skied first run down Shadow Line, nice. Went back up, second run jumped on and couple hard turns on thicker drift, heard deep shearing sound, skied to side out of path. Watched debris run past, some blocks appeared to be 3′ thick. Crown propagated left and was 2-3′ on skiers left above The Nose. Ran maybe 400 feet. No one caught.

Avalanche Details

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Trigger	Skier	Remote Trigger	0
Avalanche Type	Soft Slab	Aspect	West Northwest
Elevation	unknown	Slope Angle	35deg
Crown Depth	unknown	Width	unknown
Vertical Run	unknown

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Observer Comments

Previous snow was wind transported

Weather & Snow Characteristics

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Weather

Broken clouds, six inches new, high twenties,no wind

Snow surface

Six inches new over varied wind effect

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