Complacency

Date/heure de l'avalanche

jeudi 6 avril 2023 à 19 h 15

Estimation de l'heure d’occurrence de l’avalanche

< 12 heures

Nombre d'avalanches dans ce rapport

2 à 5

Taille de l’avalanche

2

Largeur de la plaque

200m

Longueur d'écoulement de l'avalanche

500m

Caractère de l'avalanche

• Plaque profonde et persistante

Type d'élément déclencheur

Skieur

Sous-type d'élément déclencheur

Accidentel

Versant de la zone de départ

• NO

Bande d'altitude de la zone de départ

• Alpin

Altitude de la zone de départ

2 400m

Inclinaison de la zone de départ

35°

Altitude de la zone de dépôt

2 200m

Type de cristaux de la couche fragile

• Grains à faces planes

Couverture forestière

Pente dégagée

Ventured out with some complacency into an exposed area. Freezing levels were forecasted to be around 2000m but a lot of cloud cover so we felt solar input would be minimal. Around 1pm things went blue and the heat from the sun was noticeable. We we were around 2200m at this point and although the snow was still dry it was feeling slightly more dense. Depth of snow was also ranging from 60cm-130cm (thick to thin). A few more steps into the thinner snow produced a large settlement. A few seconds later a second settlement followed that produced a fracture line 50m above us. The avalanche was slow allowing both of us to ski into safe zones with only one being partially buried.

2 additional size 1 avalanches were sympathetically released above.

The deep persistent layer has been quiet recently, and the skies have been sunny. Spring is in the air! We also had some friends ski this objective a few weeks ago(granted temps were much cooler then) All of which lead us to feel more confidant in the snow pack….human factors!

We hope this info keeps you from making the same mistakes we did. #keepthevibehigh