Colorado's Ten Avalanche Deaths in 2020-2021 So Far: What Happened
Time: 12:30 PM (Estimated) Summary Description: 1 backcountry skier caught, buried, and killed Avalanche Comments: "This was a soft slab avalanche triggered by a skier. The avalanche was small relative to the path and destructive enough to injure, bury, or kill a person. The avalanche failed on an old layer of faceted snow.... The crown face of the avalanche was 3 to 7 feet deep, 400 feet wide, and the debris ran about 400 feet. At the crown of the avalanche the faceted snow layer was three to seven feet below the snowpack surface. One hundred vertical feet down slope from the crown face, ...
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