- Submitted by
- c.dierker
- Observations date
- Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 05:00
- Location
- 49.040130° N 117.068190° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 21:00
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 1
- Slab width
- 15m
- Run length
- 25m
- Avalanche Character
- Wind slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Accidental
- Start zone aspect
- N
- Start zone elevation band
- Treeline
- Start zone elevation
- 1,900m
- Weak layer crystal type
- Surface hoar and facets
- Crust near weak layer
- No
- Wind exposure
- Down flow
Comments
Faceted snow off of a steep rock face plied up into a slab. Traversed three similar features and the forth went.
