- Submitted by
- carter.northey
- Observations date
- Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 17:35
- Location
- 51.546089° N 116.256632° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Saturday, December 7, 2019 at 14:00
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 1.5
- Slab thickness
- 50cm
- Slab width
- 50m
- Run length
- 100m
- Avalanche Character
- Deep persistent slab
- Wind slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Accidental
- Start zone aspect
- S
- SE
- Start zone elevation band
- Alpine
- Treeline
- Weak layer crystal type
- Storm snow
Comments
With weak existing layers and 30cm+ fresh light snow, decision was to ride a lower aspect. Snow was knee to waist deep, fluffy and fun.
Took a high cut to avoid what looked like a small wind loaded convex, and slab broke 5 feet below ski line. We were a group of five, and all were safe and out of the slab zone. Steeper aspects could of provided much worse consequences.
