Observation: Public
Observation Details
Name:
AndrewObservation Date:
December 9, 2021Submitted:
December 9, 2021Zone or Region:
Snoqualmie PassActivity:
Skiing/SnowboardingLocation:
Upper internationalTriggered Avalanches
Did you trigger any avalanches?
YesWas it intentional?
NoAvalanche Type:
Soft SlabSize:
Size 1: Relatively harmless to peopleElevation:
5000Aspect:
NComments:
Small remote trigger on an unsupported steep slope while skinning up upper internationalSigns of Unstable Snow
None reported
Observations
Saw small shooting cracks on Lower international. At the top of our skin track on upper international we got a 20 ft long shooting crack that remote triggered a small slide below us on a slope that ended in a small cliff.
It also appeared that there had been a natural cycle earlier in the storm with some soft debris covered by several inches of new and a mostly covered fracture line on the side of the bowl.
Snow was about 3 feet deep with a supportive crust just before the ground and then largely in consolidated above that.