Details

• Date: 2018/02/07

• Observer: Public

Location

• BC Zone: Vail & Summit County
• Area Description: East vail - west Marvin’s

Weather

• Weather Description: Clear

Avalanches

• Avalanche Description: At 2pm, my partner and I saw one avalanche at the top of west Marvin’s either occurred yesterday, 2/6/18, or early morning 2/7/18 due to dusting of snow covering slide path. Slide below the cliff band mostly likely occurred today based on debris covering recent ski tracks at the toe of the slide. Didn’t see any tracks entering from the top. We saw two tracks skiers right of the avalanche. Did a quick beacon search through the debris with no hits. Assuming remote or natural trigger.

	Date	Location/Path	#	Elev	Asp	Type	Trig	SizeR	SizeD
	2018/02/07  †	Vail Chutes	1	TL	E	SS	U	R2	D2
Date: 2018/02/07 (Estimated) Area Description: Marvins Landmark: Vail Chutes Sliding Surface: I - New/Old Interface Weak Layer: Interface Weak Layer Grain Type: Near Surface Facets Average Crown: 24 in Average Width: 175 ft Maximum Width: 225 ft Comments: Looks like it stepped down to the ground below the cliff band, but the top looks to be mostly new and wind-drifted snow.

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