- Submitted by
- reneepothaar
- Observations date
- Monday, February 17, 2020 at 22:00
- Location
- 49.048661° N 117.052123° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Monday, February 17, 2020 at 15:00
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 1.5
- Slab thickness
- 30cm
- Avalanche Character
- Storm slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Accidental
- Start zone aspect
- N
- NE
- Start zone elevation band
- Below treeline
- Wind exposure
- No wind exposure
- Vegetation cover
- Sparse trees or gladed slope
Comments
2 of our group of 3 partially buried. Storm slab between 20-40 cm deep ran on the buried surface hoar layer. Hard to say exactly how far it propagated but somewhere between 30-40 metres. Was triggered by skiers on the slope. We’d skied all day and got complacent with our spacing in the trees. Fortunately we all skied away from it.