Sawtooth Avalanche Center

Scorpion crown profile

Crown profile dug 7 days post incident: 100' wide, slope angle 33-37, aspect 270-285. Avalanche failed on both 12/8 (48-49cm) and 11/27 (24-27cm) faceted layers. Stability tests: ECTX x 2, but both tests failed @27cm and propagated with heavy force (kicking shovel). There was very little untracked snow to perform tests, and the column sites were too close to the crown (<1m) to yield valuable results.
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