- Submitted by
- bdpiche
- Observations date
- Saturday, January 11, 2020 at 23:26
- Location
- 50.791374° N 115.354004° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Friday, January 10, 2020 at 17:27
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- From 12 to 24 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 3
- Avalanche Character
- Deep persistent slab
- Trigger type
- Natural
- Start zone aspect
- N
- Start zone elevation band
- Alpine
- Weak layer crystal type
- Depth hoar
- Wind exposure
- Cross-loaded slope
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
Comments
Size 3 off the Commonwealth/Pigtail Col slope. Tons of hanging fire left to go. We gave the ‘friendlier’ slope off Pigs Back a pass as you’d be riding Avvy debris anyway. Looked within last 1-2 days. Lots of fresh wind transport up high. No skin track visible past the trees, knowing someone was up there on Tuesday.
