- Submitted by
- kyleparsloe
- Observations date
- Monday, January 25, 2016 at 16:33
- Location
- 52.867470° N 118.568570° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Sunday, January 24, 2016 at 14:30
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 2.5
- Slab thickness
- 75cm
- Slab width
- 30m
- Run length
- 100m
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Accidental
- Start zone aspect
- SE
- Start zone elevation band
- Treeline
- Wind exposure
- Cross-loaded slope
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
Comments
Got lucky. two skiers triggered slide on up track. one skier escaped becoming involved, the other went for a ride of about 100m, was not buried. debris upto 3m deep.