- Submitted by
- cunningham.dylan
- Observations date
- Friday, January 1, 2021 at 14:05
- Location
- 51.632864° N 116.375837° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Friday, January 1, 2021 at 21:59
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 2 to 5
- The size of avalanche
- 1
- Avalanche Character
- Persistent slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Accidental
- Start zone aspect
- NE
- Start zone elevation band
- Below treeline
- Start zone elevation
- 2,100m
- Weak layer crystal type
- Surface hoar
- Crust near weak layer
- No
- Wind exposure
- No wind exposure
Comments
Accidentally triggered surface hoar on an unsupported pillow. Down 50cm. Not found as soon as we got into wind exposed areas.
Old hard surface from sloughs running in a couloir was providing a good bed surface for thin slabs of new snow that were warming up with the day.
