Slab stompers

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Information

The day was:
  • Cloudy
  • Cold
Avalanche conditions
  • Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
  • Whumpfing or drum-like sounds or shooting cracks.

Comments

Nice little ski tour up the west Bullmoose today, definitely found evidence of wind slabs and wind affected snow. Triggered small cornices by stomping that then triggered small slabs below them in the new storm snow. When I hiked down to investigate, that’s when I triggered the lower slab of older wind affected snow sitting on old surface hoar. Below that it’s absolutely bombproof though.