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- Observations date
- Tuesday, January 30, 2018 at 16:00
- Location
- 49.476670° N 114.972790° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Tuesday, January 30, 2018 at 09:00
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- From 12 to 24 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 3
- Run length
- 700m
- Avalanche Character
- Deep persistent slab
- Trigger type
- Natural
- Start zone aspect
- N
- Start zone elevation band
- Treeline
- Start zone elevation
- 1,915m
- Runout zone elevation
- 1,225m
- Vegetation cover
- Sparse trees or gladed slope
Comments
Avalanche event occurred some time during the evening of Jan 29th. 100cm of new snow in Fernie over the past week, rapid warming and rain event over night. Mature timber in the debris. Last time we know of this path running to this magnitude was March 2014.
