Cornice close call on Young’s peak

Date/heure de l'avalanche

dimanche 31 mars 2024 à 21 h 00

Nombre d'avalanches dans ce rapport

2 à 5

Taille de l’avalanche

2

Caractère de l'avalanche

• Corniche seulement
• Plaque de neige de tempête

Type d'élément déclencheur

Skieur

Sous-type d'élément déclencheur

Accidentel

Busy day on Young’s traverse. Witnessed a cornice fall. Coincidently had taken a photo a minute before the size 2.5 avalanche. Once we arrived at the summit of young’s, we could see a skin track about a foot away. It’s unclear to us if the cornice came down naturally or was triggered by the nearby skier as we couldn’t see if anyone was on the summit at the time. But 20+ tracks

down Youngs peak today.

About the same time there was a size 2 30cm - 40cm x 30m wide x 150m long suspecting Storm slab as no wind affect nearby. .

Timing reference with others in thé are who had seen in earlier in the afternoon. There was a near by ski track, so suspect a Skier accidental without involvement.