| Trigger | Skier | Remote Trigger | 0 |
| Avalanche Type | Unknown | Aspect | Unknown |
| Elevation | unknown | Slope Angle | unknown |
| Crown Depth | unknown | Width | unknown |
| Vertical Run | unknown |
Avalanche: Girdwood
Location: Crow Pass
Toured from the Crow Creek trail head parking lot until the trail junction before turning around due to red flags and the party ahead remotely triggering a small avalanche early in the approach.
Avalanche Details
Delayed followed a separate pair of skiers up from the Crow Creek lot with intentions of skiing Jewel Glacier. At the trail junction, the pair went straight (toward the mine) and remotely triggered a small avalanche on the smaller slope just above/before the Monarch mine remnants (Assuming wind slab.)
Obvious signs of instability
| Recent Avalanches? | Yes |
| Collapsing (Whumphing)? | Yes |
| Cracking (Shooting cracks)? | Yes |
Observer Comments
Recent winds created many winds slabs on the approach through the valley on the standard hiking trail. Cracking, and collapsing when touring off the skin track.
Weather
Clear sky, variable winds- increasing as we went further into the valley, new snow from Sunday/Monday had significantly been transported.
Snow surface
Variable - Sastrugi, powder, rocks
Snowpack
Reactive wind slabs.
Simple slope test on skis and hand pits showed active slabs and variable firmness and depth of the slabs.
Around 8 ish inches of fresh powder at the parking lot.
We passed a group that was in the middle of a formal pit. Shared their results of ECT 14 with full propagation
Sastrugi, wind affected snow, on the trail to crow pass