- Submitted by
- Parks Canada Visitor Safety
- Observations date
- Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 22:00
- Location
- 51.400370° N 116.216830° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
/-116.21683,51.40037,8,0,0/1026x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiYXZhbGFuY2hlY2FuYWRhIiwiYSI6ImNqd2dvZmUxdzE4ZWg0M2tkaXpuNG95aTQifQ.pBLM87fE3sIxRJqJT7Bf7g "Skier Triggered Size 3 Mt Fairview")
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 22:28
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- Less than 12 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 3
- Slab thickness
- 100cm
- Slab width
- 80m
- Run length
- 500m
- Avalanche Character
- Deep persistent slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Remote
- Start zone aspect
- E
- SE
- Start zone elevation band
- Alpine
- Start zone elevation
- 2,500m
- Weak layer crystal type
- Depth hoar
- Crust near weak layer
- No
- Wind exposure
- Cross-loaded slope
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
Comments
We suspect this avalanche was a skier remote size 2.5-3 failing on the Nov 16 deep persistent facets.
