Avalanche: Days Headwall
Observer Name: 
Meisenheimer
Observation Date: 
Saturday, December 23, 2017
Occurrence Date: 
Saturday, December 23, 2017
Occurence Time: 
2:00pm

Region:

  • Days Headwall
Location Name or Route: 
Oingo Boingo
Elevation: 
10000
Aspect: 
North
Slope Angle: 
37
Trigger: 
Skier
Trigger: additional info: 
Remotely Triggered
Avalanche Type: 
Soft Slab
Avalanche Problem: 
Persistent Slab
Weak Layer: 
Facets
Depth: 
18"
Width: 
150
Vertical: 
500
Comments: 

Walking the Days Fork ridge line we remotely triggered this avalanche from roughly 50' away. Big collapse and then the steep part of the slope avalanched. After a few seconds it sympathetically released the adjacent slope and that also ran to the flats. 

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