Dome Shoulder Wind Slab
Observed Feb 29, 2024, 2:00 p.m. PST · Northwest Coast
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Quick report
- Ride type
- Alpine slopes, Convex slopes, Mellow slopes, Open trees, Steep slopes, Sunny slopes
- Riding quality
- Amazing
- Snow conditions
- Deep powder, Powder
- Avalanche conditions
- Avalanche condition slab, Avalanche condition snow
Avalanche report
- Comment
- Storm/wind slab on rain crust layer triggered while cutting dome shoulder. Slab depth varies from 30cm to about a meter. Decent size propagation. Fairly large chunks of wind compressed snow. Gave it size 1.5 cause of short run distance, if it ran longer would be a clear 2.
- Run length
- 50
- Slab width
- 100
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Wind exposure
- Windward slope
- Avalanche size
- 1.5
- Slab thickness
- 90
- Trigger sub type
- Intentional
- Start zone aspect
- SW
- Vegetation cover
- Sparse trees
- Start zone incline
- 35
- Avalanche character
- Persistent slab, Storm slab, Wind slab
- Crust near weak layer
- Yes
- Number of avalanches
- 1
- Start zone elevation
- 1300
- Avalanche observation
- 12hrsAgo
- Weak layer crystal type
- Facets
- Start zone elevation band
- Tln
- Avalanche occurrence datetime
- 2024-02-29T22:00:00.000Z