Small avalanche up deep creek

Location Name: Deep creek Region: Cabin Creek, Deep Creek, or Pole Creek Area Observation Date & Time: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 - 10:00
Location: 39.247127, -120.239721 See map: CalTopo	Is this an Avalanche Observation?: Yes Conditions Alerts: Recent Loading Recent Loading›Blowing Snow Recent Loading›More Than a Foot of New Snow Terrain Alerts: Slopes Steeper than 30 degrees Terrain Matches the Advisory

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Description of Snow, Weather, and Avalanche Conditions:

10” Fresh snow on an old sun crust layer. Evidence of wind loading at start zone. During a ski cut and the wind slab fractured then stepped down to the new snow slab.

Terrain Details

Terrain: elevations:

Near Treeline

Terrain: aspects:

Avalanche Details

Avalanche Type:

Storm Slab

Failure Plane/Weak Layer:

New/old snow interface

Trigger

Trigger:

Skier

Trigger Modifier:

Intentionally Triggered

Terrain

Start Zone Slope Angle:

30degrees

Aspect:

Northeast

Starting Elevation:

near-treeline

Size

Destructive Size:

D1 Relatively harmless to people.

Relative Size:

R2 Small

Crown Height:

1 ft

Avalanche Width (Average width):

100ft.

Avalanche Length (Vertical Run):

400ft.

People Involved

Number of people caught:

Number of partial burials:

Number of full burials:

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