T2.5 skier accidental
Observed Jan 24, 2023, 9:00 a.m. PST · Purcells
This report was submitted with an older form.
Avalanche report
- Comment
- Investigation of avalanche reported to Kicking Horse Mtn Safety. Please take heed of this near miss and make your terrain choices very carefully.
- Run length
- 960
- Slab width
- 40
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Wind exposure
- Lee slope
- Avalanche size
- 3
- Slab thickness
- 100
- Trigger sub type
- Accidental
- Start zone aspect
- E
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
- Start zone incline
- 35
- Avalanche character
- Deep persistent slab
- Crust near weak layer
- No
- Number of avalanches
- 1
- Start zone elevation
- 2320
- Runout zone elevation
- 1650
- Weak layer burial date
- 2022-11-21
- Weak layer crystal type
- Facets, Depth hoar
- Start zone elevation band
- Alp
- Avalanche occurrence datetime
- 2023-01-23T22:02:00.000Z
Incident report
- Group size
- 5
- Terrain trap
- Gully depression, Slope transition or bench, Trees, Cliff
- Group activity
- Skiing
- Number injured
- 0
- Number involved
- 0
- Number caught only
- 0
- Number fully buried
- 0
- Snow depth trigger point
- Average
- Terrain shape trigger point
- Concave
- Number partly buried able breathing
- 0
- Number partly buried impaired breathing
- 0