| Trigger | Skier | Remote Trigger | No |
| Avalanche Type | Soft Slab | Aspect | West |
| Elevation | unknown | Slope Angle | unknown |
| Crown Depth | unknown | Width | unknown |
| Vertical Run | unknown |
Avalanche: Turnagain
Location: Tincan Trees
Plan was to hit Eddie’s. When we pulled in the parking lot it was a complete slush fest.
We kept driving further up and just around 800′ seems like the snow was looking better and drier.
We turned around and went to the Tincan lot, once there, the snow wasn’t completely dry, but better. Once on the skin track, looked like the newer snow was falling on saturated older snow, seemed like yesterday’s snow came in with a lot of water content then became drier.
Up higher the snow started to get drier and deeper, way to deep. At some point I counted 14 people within visual in the skin track.
Once at treeline, groups were choosing strategies for where to go. Then we encountered some groups at the bottom of the run.
Snow was good, but deep enough to sink almost to mid quad, even with big skis. Hard to put turns in low angle, almost straight lines.
Avalanche Details
Couple of storm slabs on some rollovers.
Obvious signs of instability
| Recent Avalanches? | Yes |
| Collapsing (Whumphing)? | Yes |
| Cracking (Shooting cracks)? | Yes |
Observer Comments
A couple of collapses while traversing and shuffling with skis.
Rapid loading for sure.
Weather
Stormy!
Blowing at times from the NW.
Snow surface
Lots of new snow, maybe 2' in some areas.
Soft Slab released
Soft Slab released on a drop.