- Submitted by
- will.stoop
- Observations date
- Monday, February 27, 2017
- Location
- 49.940940° N 123.237660° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Activity
- Skiing
Group details
- Total in the group?
- 2
- People not injured (caught but not buried)?
- 1
- People involved?
- 1
Terrain details
- Terrain shape at trigger point
- Planar
- Snow depth at trigger point
- Average
- Terrain traps
- Gully or depression
- Trees
Comments
Size 2 wet slab with 12in. crown x ~100ft. wide x ~500ft. run length on W/NW open slope below cliff face funnelling into short gully into open bowl. Distinct, thick, ice layer below 20-30cm unsettled snow. Sunny all day; rapidly warming weak surface layer.
Observed multiple self-triggered micro-cracks in afternoon on wind slabs and sun exposed slopes indicating sliding weak layer below.
