- Submitted by
- Bill Laing
- Observations date
- Saturday, December 23, 2023 at 19:20
- Location
- 55.362500° N 122.646530° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Saturday, December 23, 2023 at 19:20
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- Less than 12 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 1.5
- Slab thickness
- 40cm
- Slab width
- 20m
- Run length
- 30m
- Avalanche Character
- Persistent slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Accidental
- Start zone aspect
- E
- Start zone elevation band
- Treeline
- Start zone elevation
- 1,565m
- Weak layer crystal type
- Surface hoar
- Wind exposure
- Cross-loaded slope
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
Comments
Suspect it was the December 1st surface hoar layer. Slab thickness variable as per close up photo.
