- Submitted by
- cdnmoose11
- Observations date
- Saturday, March 5, 2022 at 20:00
- Location
- 51.259100° N 117.038520° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Saturday, March 5, 2022 at 20:14
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- From 12 to 24 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 2
- Slab width
- 30m
- Run length
- 170m
- Avalanche Character
- Persistent slab
- Trigger type
- Natural
- Start zone aspect
- E
- Start zone elevation band
- Treeline
- Start zone elevation
- 2,000m
- Runout zone elevation
- 1,899m
- Weak layer burial date
- Wednesday, February 16, 2022
- Crust near weak layer
- Yes
Comments
Seen from town today. Did not see it yesterday. Strongly suspect the Feb 16 MFcr/FC/SH layer, which has seen a surprising about of activity (especially SE aspects) at this elevation band for 2 weeks now.