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Remotely triggered hard slab avalanche on Morgan Ridge 12.31.10

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Uploaded by on Dec 31, 2010

Simon and I remotely triggered this hard slab avalanche on Morgan Ridge from about 1000 feet away. It was 2-5 feet deep, 100 feet wide, and ran about 800 vertical feet. The slope angle was 30-34 degrees, and the failure plane was a thin layer of facets that formed just prior to Christmas.

Hard slabs can be very dangerous because they are very difficult to evaluate, and getting tangled up in one can be dangerous even if it's only a small slide.

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