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Glossary

Loose Dry Avalanche

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Raven Eye Photography

Several loose dry avalanches covering a slope after a recent snowfall.

Loose dry avalanches are a type of loose snow avalanche composed of dry snow. These types of avalanches are most likely to occur - either naturally or with a human trigger - when surface snow layers are composed of deep, low density snow.