textbook example

19th February 2012

The slab sheared very easily on the very soft layer below. Winds must have been light here when the snow started and picked up to make a harder slab as the weather system moved through.
Perspective is a little distorted of the soft basal layer and bottom of slab (photographer error, e&oe).

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