Avalanche: Hatcher Pass

Location: West side of Eldorado

Date:

March 4, 2020 10:16pm

Observer:

Anonymous

Route & General Observations

Soft slab avalanche was snow machine triggered today. The slab spider webbed around rider.
They hit other steep stuff today without any red flags.

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Forecaster Comments

Rider report sounds like he triggered the deep persistent slab. We are highly confident this avalanche failed on the January facet layer.

Avalanche Details

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Trigger	Snowmachiner	Remote Trigger	Unknown
Avalanche Type	Unknown	Aspect	West
Elevation	4600ft	Slope Angle	unknown
Crown Depth	4ft	Width	unknown
Vertical Run	unknown

Avalanche Details

Avalanche was reported to be 4' at the deepest part of the crown. Avalanche was fast!

Red Flags

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Obvious signs of instability

Recent Avalanches?	Yes
Collapsing (Whumphing)?	No
Cracking (Shooting cracks)?	No

Observer Comments

Limited information reported. Only known info is that a rider triggered a large persistent slab avalanche today and rode out without incident.

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3/4 Snomachine triggered slab avalanche. W aspect of Eldorado about 4600'.

Location

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