- Submitted by
- Marcus Baranow
- Observations date
- Saturday, December 15, 2018 at 16:00
- Location
- 51.448700° N 116.374260° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Saturday, December 15, 2018 at 13:18
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 2 to 5
- The size of avalanche
- 1
- Slab thickness
- 30cm
- Slab width
- 2m
- Run length
- 5m
- Avalanche Character
- Persistent slab
- Storm slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Intentional
- Start zone aspect
- SW
- Start zone elevation band
- Treeline
- Start zone elevation
- 2,000m
- Weak layer crystal type
- Facets
- Wind exposure
- Cross-loaded slope
- Vegetation cover
- Sparse trees or gladed slope
Comments
Ski cut 2 small size 1s on isolated small convex rolls at 1950-2000m in Paget Glades area. I have spent the last two days there watching the storm snow firm up and develop into a reactive slab due to warmth and wind.