- Submitted by
- Wesley Gregg
- Observations date
- Monday, December 9, 2019 at 13:45
- Location
- 52.326930° N 121.420060° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Sunday, December 8, 2019 at 05:45
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- From 12 to 24 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 2 to 5
- The size of avalanche
- 2
- Slab thickness
- 15cm
- Slab width
- 60m
- Run length
- 100m
- Avalanche Character
- Storm slab
- Trigger type
- Natural
- Start zone aspect
- NW
- Start zone elevation band
- Treeline
- Start zone elevation
- 1,650m
- Start zone incline
- 38°
- Weak layer crystal type
- Storm snow
- Wind exposure
- Lee slope
- Vegetation cover
- Sparse trees or gladed slope
Comments
Upon arrival to the zone of planned skiing. A natural size two had occurred in the last 12hours. Appeared to have been triggered from a tree bomb knocked off by the wind.
This greatly altered our plans.
