Mt English

Activité

Ski

Nombre total de personne dans le groupe ?

2

Nombre de personnes non blessées (emportées mais non ensevelies) ?

1

Nombre de personnes impliquées ?

1

Forme du terrain au point de déclenchement

Convexe

Épaisseur de neige au point de déclenchement

Moyenne

Piège naturel

• Aucun piège naturel évident

Super sunny day out at English and a late start so we stuck to conservative North aspect terrain. Only got up to about 1900m, on the way up had one shooting crack propagating about 5m from skis but no whoomphing. Higher up along ridge had evidence of wind effect and pockets of sun affected crust. Decided we would ski as densely treed areas as possible and avoid convexities.

First skier traversing in a more open clearing between two tightly treed pitches around 1800m released a slab 60-70cm deep on the Jan 30 SH layer. Skier went for a ride but was able to stay on his feet and ski out of the path about 15m down from the crown. Slide ran 30-40m.