- Submitted by
- skierdude789
- Observations date
- Saturday, February 15, 2020 at 16:30
- Location
- 49.607203° N 121.080257° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Saturday, February 15, 2020 at 12:45
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 1.5
- Slab thickness
- 10cm
- Slab width
- 15m
- Run length
- 75m
- Avalanche Character
- Wind slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Accidental
- Start zone aspect
- SE
- Start zone elevation band
- Treeline
- Start zone elevation
- 1,660m
- Wind exposure
- Lee slope
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
Comments
Thin spot in snowpack above skier started a small size 1 which triggered a slightly larger 1.5 further down. SSE exposure, wind loaded slope. Did not examine further due to exposure. No one caught.