Hanging Lake/Gin Peak Area Storm Slabs
Observed Jan 10, 2026, 1:40 p.m. PST · Southwest Coast
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Quick report
- Weather
- Stormy
- Ride type
- Dense trees, Open trees
- Riding quality
- Amazing
- Snow conditions
- Deep powder
- Avalanche conditions
- Avalanche condition slab, Avalanche condition snow
Avalanche report
- Comment
- Skinning up above Hanging Lake (near treeline) around 1:40pm, started seeing multiple storm slabs on slopes just around 30º and above. Heavy snowfall all day (3+cm/hr) and light winds. The storm slab pictured was a remote trigger from a large group ahead of us. The snow went from fun, deep powder not forming a cohesive slab to denser, reactive storm slabs very quickly. Ski cut an isolated slope on the other side of the skin track and produced a similar depth storm slab.
- Run length
- 100
- Slab width
- 50
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Avalanche size
- 1.5
- Slab thickness
- 35
- Trigger sub type
- Remote
- Start zone aspect
- N
- Trigger distance
- 30
- Vegetation cover
- Sparse trees
- Start zone incline
- 30
- Avalanche character
- Storm slab
- Number of avalanches
- 1
- Start zone elevation
- 1525
- Avalanche observation
- 12hrsAgo
- Start zone elevation band
- Tln
- Avalanche occurrence datetime
- 2026-01-10T21:40:00.000Z