- Submitted by
- jacksonbodtker
- Observations date
- Sunday, March 24, 2024 at 15:00
- Location
- 51.600219° N 116.278140° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 06:00
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- From 12 to 24 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 3
- Slab thickness
- 100cm
- Slab width
- 50m
- Run length
- 200m
- Avalanche Character
- Deep persistent slab
- Persistent slab
- Start zone aspect
- N
- NE
- Start zone elevation band
- Alpine
- Start zone elevation
- 2,500m
- Runout zone elevation
- 2,300m
- Weak layer crystal type
- Depth hoar
- Facets
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
Comments
Recent slide on the approach to Hector took out most of the years snowpack. Looked very fresh and if I had to guess it was likely a remote trigger from the skin track either yesterday or this morning? Anyone else that was up there know? Also lots of wet slides on the south facing slopes, mostly from yesterday, didn’t see much action on the way out this afternoon
