- Submitted by
- lipina.lukas
- Observations date
- Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at 20:02
- Location
- 51.262370° N 117.659190° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
/-117.65919,51.26237,8,0,0/1026x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiYXZhbGFuY2hlY2FuYWRhIiwiYSI6ImNqd2dvZmUxdzE4ZWg0M2tkaXpuNG95aTQifQ.pBLM87fE3sIxRJqJT7Bf7g "Camp West avalanche")
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at 12:02
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 3.5
- Avalanche Character
- Deep persistent slab
- Persistent slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Accidental
- Start zone aspect
- SE
- Start zone elevation band
- Alpine
- Start zone elevation
- 2,250m
- Crust near weak layer
- Yes
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
Comments
triggered when I skinning on the ridge to the saddle for digging a pit, 4a in the book, SE - around 2250
thickness of trigger point around 40cm, 10cm thick of facets buried underneath,
width of crotriggered when I skinning on the ridge to the saddle for digging a pit, 4a in the book, SE - around 2250
thickness of trigger point around 40cm, 10cm thick of facets buried underneath,
width of crown around 80m+, crack propagate back to the ridge around next 40m to other open slopewn around 80m+, crack propagate back to the ridge around next 40m to other open slope
