Repeater Ridge natural avalanche
Observed Jan 24, 2023, 2:00 p.m. PST · Purcells
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Avalanche report
- Comment
- Large natural avalanche which looked to be initiated by wind loading. Avalanche sympathetically trigger the adjacent path both running to size 3.
- Run length
- 550
- Slab width
- 100
- Trigger type
- Natural
- Wind exposure
- Lee slope
- Avalanche size
- 3
- Start zone aspect
- E
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
- Avalanche character
- Deep persistent slab
- Crust near weak layer
- No
- Number of avalanches
- 2-5
- Start zone elevation
- 2350
- Runout zone elevation
- 2025
- Weak layer burial date
- 2022-11-21
- Avalanche observation
- 12hrsAgo
- Weak layer crystal type
- Facets
- Avalanche occurrence datetime
- 2023-01-24T21:30:00.000Z