- Submitted by
- hyland.backcountry.safety
- Observations date
- Monday, April 17, 2017 at 23:30
- Location
- 54.863910° N 127.384800° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Sunday, April 16, 2017 at 15:00
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- From 12 to 24 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 2.5
- Slab width
- 200m
- Run length
- 400m
- Avalanche Character
- Wet slab
- Trigger type
- Natural
- Start zone aspect
- W
- Start zone elevation band
- Alpine
- Start zone elevation
- 1,900m
- Start zone incline
- 40°
- Runout zone elevation
- 1,700m
Comments
Size 2.5 Wet slab obs on W side of Elliot Pk (Passby Ck) . This area has strong PM solar, and slab initially appears to have been a thin storm slab, that ran 30m then stepped down to the Nov crust. This is a windward, shallow, and scoured start zone, in steep rocky terrain. Likely occurred with Sundays warmth and intense radiation. This is the first step down failure I have noted in the area this spring, and could become an increasing problem when we get some nice weather, with strong solar and increasing daytime and overnight temperatures penetrating deeper in the snowpack.