- Submitted by
- andrew.macnaughton
- Observations date
- Thursday, November 19, 2020 at 07:59
- Location
- 50.106815° N 122.956895° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Wednesday, November 18, 2020 at 23:59
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- Less than 12 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 1
- Slab thickness
- 30cm
- Slab width
- 50m
- Run length
- 300m
- Avalanche Character
- Wind slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Intentional
- Start zone aspect
- N
- Start zone elevation band
- Alpine
- Start zone elevation
- 2,200m
- Start zone incline
- 40°
- Runout zone elevation
- 1,900m
- Weak layer crystal type
- Storm snow
- Crust near weak layer
- No
- Wind exposure
- Lee slope
Comments
Deliberately dropped a small cornice on face. Ripped out very quickly and propagated around the walls of chute and pull a part of the next face.