- Submitted by
- derek.cronmiller
- Observations date
- Monday, March 27, 2017
- Location
- 59.971120° N 134.706590° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Sunday, March 26, 2017 at 12:00
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- Less than 12 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 11 to 50
- The size of avalanche
- 2
- Avalanche Character
- Deep persistent slab
- Loose wet
- Persistent slab
- Trigger type
- Natural
- Start zone aspect
- E
- S
- SW
- W
- Start zone elevation band
- Alpine
- Treeline
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
Comments
On the drive home from the pass I noticed many new avalanches (it snowed last night) on solar aspects initiating at or near rocks. Mostly size 1 wet slides, but some had stepped down on weak layers (one down to ground) and reached size 2. It is time to really start thinking about the sun!