- Submitted by
- Marcus Baranow
- Observations date
- Friday, February 28, 2020 at 20:00
- Location
- 51.312630° N 115.938470° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Friday, February 28, 2020 at 13:00
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 1.5
- Slab thickness
- 25cm
- Slab width
- 10m
- Run length
- 75m
- Avalanche Character
- Wind slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Accidental
- Start zone aspect
- N
- Start zone elevation band
- Alpine
- Wind exposure
- Lee slope
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
Comments
After climbing the Chockstone Couloir we switched over and just before making my first turn I popped a soft slab below and to the skier's right of my position. The slab turned to powder quickly, ran fast in the steep terrain and filled in our bootpack track. Not a big one but big enough for the terrain we were in if caught (skinny/steep couloir that curves back and forth before reaching the fan) and calling it a 1.5 due to trauma possibilities.