- Submitted by
- Martin Labuda
- Observations date
- Thursday, January 5, 2017 at 05:37
- Location
- 51.336440° N 117.515750° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Wednesday, January 4, 2017 at 13:00
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 1.5
- Slab thickness
- 30cm
- Slab width
- 50m
- Run length
- 10m
- Avalanche Character
- Wind slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Accidental
- Start zone aspect
- SW
- Start zone elevation band
- Alpine
- Start zone elevation
- 2,350m
Comments
Very small feature, first skier heard a loud whumpf as he was 3/4 up, went for a 10m ride. No injuries.
