Van Horlick Skier Remote sz 2
Observed Feb 13, 2023, 12:00 p.m. PST · Southwest Coast
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Avalanche report
- Comment
- Sr while on uptrack. No involvement. Several whumphs precluded the avalanche. Not an obviously windloaded area but a morrainal type feature. Suspect soft windslab over crust layer. We were able to trigger it where the snow depth on the crust was only about 20cms deep. The slope fractured about 30m above our position and ran to about 4m of the leader's uptrack position.
- Run length
- 100
- Slab width
- 20
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Wind exposure
- Cross loaded slope
- Avalanche size
- 2
- Trigger sub type
- Remote
- Start zone aspect
- N
- Trigger distance
- 30
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
- Avalanche character
- Persistent slab, Storm slab
- Crust near weak layer
- Yes
- Number of avalanches
- 1
- Start zone elevation
- 1800
- Runout zone elevation
- 1700
- Weak layer burial date
- 2023-01-31
- Avalanche observation
- 12hrsAgo
- Start zone elevation band
- Tln
- Avalanche occurrence datetime
- 2023-02-13T21:30:00.000Z