- Submitted by
- jacob.dans.p
- Observations date
- Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 01:00
- Location
- 51.731380° N 116.473880° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Monday, January 13, 2025 at 22:00
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- Less than 12 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 2
- Run length
- 600m
- Avalanche Character
- Wind slab
- Trigger type
- Natural
- Start zone aspect
- SW
- Start zone elevation band
- Alpine
- Start zone elevation
- 2,600m
- Weak layer crystal type
- Facets
- Wind exposure
- Cross-loaded slope
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
Comments
Slab failed sometime during the day, suspect solar triggered. It was hard to tell whether it was a windslab or a deep persistent slab, but notably the slab entrained facets and ran quite far given the size of the crown.
