- Submitted by
- giffster
- Observations date
- Monday, January 9, 2017 at 06:03
- Location
- 50.086980° N 122.913550° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Sunday, January 8, 2017 at 13:00
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 3
- Slab thickness
- 40cm
- Slab width
- 50m
- Run length
- 500m
- Avalanche Character
- Wind slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Accidental
- Start zone aspect
- SW
- Start zone elevation band
- Treeline
- Start zone elevation
- 2,000m
- Start zone incline
- 25°
- Weak layer crystal type
- Facets
- Wind exposure
- Cross-loaded slope
- Vegetation cover
- Sparse trees or gladed slope
Comments
Touchy and reactive wind slab. Ran on faceted layer ranging from 10-70 cm deep.