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Productive ski cuts incline lake

Location Name: Incline peak Region: Mount Rose Area Observation Date & Time: Sunday, February 3, 2019 - 13:30
Location: 39.295542, -119.936989 See map: CalTopo	Is this an Avalanche Observation?: Yes Conditions Alerts: Other Signs of Instability (cracking, whumpfing, collapsing) Other Signs of Instability (cracking, whumpfing, collapsing)›Shooting Cracks Recent Loading Recent Loading›Blowing Snow Recent Loading›More Than a Foot of New Snow Recent Loading›Snowfall Rates of More Than 1 in/hr Terrain Alerts: Slopes Steeper than 30 degrees Obvious Slide Path Trigger Points

Location Name:

Incline peak

Region:

Mount Rose Area

Observation Date & Time:

Sunday, February 3, 2019 - 13:30

Location:

39.295542, -119.936989

See map: CalTopo

Is this an Avalanche Observation?:

Yes

Conditions Alerts:

Other Signs of Instability (cracking, whumpfing, collapsing)
Other Signs of Instability (cracking, whumpfing, collapsing)›Shooting Cracks
Recent Loading
Recent Loading›Blowing Snow
Recent Loading›More Than a Foot of New Snow
Recent Loading›Snowfall Rates of More Than 1 in/hr

Terrain Alerts:

Slopes Steeper than 30 degrees

Obvious Slide Path

Trigger Points

Observation made by: Public

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Observation

Description of Snow, Weather, and Avalanche Conditions:

Widespread instability and touchy storm slabs were observed on a tour of Incline Lake Peak. Windslabs were observed on ridgetops as well as well below treeline on cross-loaded terrain features. Ski cuts on small convex test slopes lead to large shooting cracks and a ski cut on larger slope produced ss—ar-r4-d2-s.

Avalanche debris

15 foot shooting cracks

Terrain Details

Terrain: elevations:

Near Treeline

Terrain: aspects:

Avalanche Details

Trigger

Trigger:

Snowboarder

Trigger Modifier:

Intentionally Triggered

Terrain

Start Zone Slope Angle:

38degrees

Aspect:

East

Starting Elevation:

near-treeline

Size

Destructive Size:

D2 Could bury, injure, or kill a person.

Relative Size:

R4 Large

Crown Height:

Less than 1 ft

Avalanche Width (Average width):

200ft.

Avalanche Length (Vertical Run):

400ft.

People Involved

Number of people caught:

Number of partial burials:

Number of full burials:

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