Gorge 15
Observed Apr 8, 2023, 4:20 p.m. PDT · Monashees
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Quick report
- Comment
- Touchy storm slab conditions on Saturday. We were noticing slabby feeling snow on the uptrack and decided to play around on some test slopes. Got lots of shooting cracks and a couple small .5's to let go on convex rolls. decided to change our plan for the day instead of riding the main face or chute we were just going to ride near the uptrack, approaching the summit we ski cut another slope and heard a giant whomph and remote triggered a size 2 in the bowl lookers left of the uptrack at the summit at 15k.
- Weather
- Stormy, Foggy, Windy, Wet
- Ride type
- Open trees, Steep slopes, Dense trees, Mellow slopes
- Stayed away
- Steep slopes, Alpine slopes, Convex slopes
- Riding quality
- Good
- Snow conditions
- Powder, Crusty, Wet, Wind affected
- Avalanche conditions
- Avalanche condition sound, Avalanche condition slab, Avalanche condition snow
Avalanche report
- Comment
- 20-30cm depth at crown about 40 meters wide dissapeared into the fog coulndt see all of it so could be larger we saw trees shake a good distance away. Ran on last weeks sun crust
- Run length
- 100
- Slab width
- 40
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Wind exposure
- Cross loaded slope
- Avalanche size
- 2
- Slab thickness
- 30
- Trigger sub type
- Remote
- Start zone aspect
- NE
- Trigger distance
- 15
- Vegetation cover
- Sparse trees
- Start zone incline
- 30
- Avalanche character
- Wind slab, Storm slab
- Crust near weak layer
- Yes
- Number of avalanches
- 1
- Start zone elevation
- 2000
- Runout zone elevation
- 1900
- Avalanche observation
- 24to48hrsAgo
- Weak layer crystal type
- Storm snow
- Start zone elevation band
- Tln
- Avalanche occurrence datetime
- 2023-04-08T11:30:00.000Z
Snowpack report
- Site aspect
- NE
- Site elevation
- 2000
- Cracking observed
- Yes
- Site elevation band
- Tln
- Whumpfing observed
- Yes
Weather report
- Wind speed
- Wind speed moderate
- Blowing snow
- Light
- Snowfall rate
- 1
- Wind direction
- NW
- New snow24hours
- 15
- Precipitation type
- Snow