Dolomite Shoulder Remote Trigger
Observed Feb 23, 2025, 9:00 a.m. PST · Central Rockies
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Quick report
- Comment
- We had a great day on Dolomite Shoulder. Sportive crust with ~10cm on top in most places. Very faceted below the crust. Skiing the trees back to the road was pretty enjoyable with the refresh. See my other MIN from the day for more snowpack observations. We had a close remote trigger. While skiing down the SE ridge the NE wind loaded slope released and propagated up the ridge. No skiers were involved but we could have given the slope a wider berth. The experience was a good opportunity to reinforce the importance of communication, sharing thoughts freely, and having more detailed conversations about hazards, and route selection.
- Weather
- Cloudy, Warm, Windy
- Ride type
- Alpine slopes, Dense trees, Mellow slopes, Open trees
- Stayed away
- Convex slopes, Steep slopes
- Riding quality
- Good
- Snow conditions
- Crusty, Deep powder, Powder, Wind affected
- Avalanche conditions
- Avalanche condition slab, Avalanche condition snow
Avalanche report
- Run length
- 80
- Slab width
- 70
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Wind exposure
- Lee slope
- Avalanche size
- 2
- Slab thickness
- 20
- Trigger sub type
- Remote
- Start zone aspect
- NE
- Trigger distance
- 1
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
- Avalanche character
- Wind slab
- Number of avalanches
- 1
- Start zone elevation
- 2350
- Start zone elevation band
- Alp, Tln
- Avalanche occurrence datetime
- 2025-02-24T21:00:00.000Z