- Submitted by
- jamespanozzo
- Observations date
- Saturday, January 21, 2017 at 21:47
- Location
- 49.329530° N 117.331930° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Friday, January 20, 2017 at 11:00
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 2
- Slab width
- 20m
- Run length
- 88m
- Avalanche Character
- Persistent slab
- Storm slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Intentional
- Start zone aspect
- SE
- Start zone elevation band
- Treeline
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
Comments
Triggered by cornice fall. Failure on storm snow along ridge line, debris slid down 30m then triggering a smaller width step down to persistent layer lower down the slope.
