- Submitted by
- Michael Loch
- Observations date
- Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 18:00
- Location
- 50.330300° N 122.380930° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Wednesday, January 13, 2021
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- From 24 to 48 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 2 to 5
- The size of avalanche
- 3.5
- Slab width
- 300m
- Avalanche Character
- Deep persistent slab
- Wind slab
- Trigger type
- Natural
- Start zone aspect
- N
- Start zone elevation band
- Alpine
- Treeline
- Start zone elevation
- 1,950m
- Runout zone elevation
- 1,525m
- Weak layer burial date
- Wednesday, December 9, 2020
- Weak layer crystal type
- Surface hoar and facets
- Crust near weak layer
- Yes
- Wind exposure
- Lee slope
- Vegetation cover
- Sparse trees or gladed slope
Comments
Looked like wind slab at ridge top stepped down to early dec rain crust. Crowns were faint and mostly filled in. We assumed this ran during the Jan12/13th cycle.
