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My eye's aren't good, not to mention I'm retarded. So can someone tell me if the line at midslope on the snow is the crown of a slide? Isn't this pretty steep for such a slide? Anyone have any real information about this?

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Um, well, max didn't take the picture...because I'm not max. Where he is hosting it from.

 

To me, that fracture line two-thirds of the way up the slope looke like a small slab break (a sluffalanche, a slabalanche). The slope there is pretty steep (60-70 degrees), meaning any snow accumulation above a crust will slough off. I'm sure lots of windloading goes on there. And in the course of a day or two or three on windy days, enough can accumulate there to slough off (i.e., gets too heavy to maintain adhesion so slides away).

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