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Small wet slide above Kingvale

Location Name: Plavada Region: Outside of the Forecast Area Observation Date & Time: Saturday, March 23, 2019 - 12:15
Location: 39.320946, -120.479910 See map: CalTopo	Is this an Avalanche Observation?: Yes Conditions Alerts: Avalanche Activity

Observation made by: Public

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Description of Snow, Weather, and Avalanche Conditions:

We skied NW of Kingvale today. Along the way we saw 3-6 inches of heavy new snow on top of a supportable crust. Our elevation ranged from 5,900 - 7,100. On steeper slopes, we could get this new snow to cause small loose wet slides.

Skier triggered loose wet on a steeper rollover.

Loose wet failure on a test slope

Avalanche Details

Avalanche Type:

Wet Loose

Failure Plane/Weak Layer:

New/old snow interface

Additional number of similar avalanches:

Trigger

Trigger:

Skier

Trigger Modifier:

Accidentally Triggered

Terrain

Aspect:

South

Starting Elevation:

6400

Size

Destructive Size:

D1 Relatively harmless to people.

Relative Size:

R1 Very Small

Crown Height:

Less than 1 ft

Avalanche Width (Average width):

25ft.

Avalanche Length (Vertical Run):

40ft.

People Involved

Number of people caught:

Number of partial burials:

Number of full burials:

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