Avalanche Involvement
Observed Oct 29, 2018, 11:00 a.m. PDT · banff-yoho-kootenay
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Incident report
- Group size
- 3
- Description
- Parks Canada responded to an InReach activation for three skiiers who were hit by a natural avalanche in a couloir on the east ridge of Mt. Patterson. There were no burials, but all three went for a ~100m tumble sustaining various injuries, the worst being a head injury and broken ribs. Gear was lost and all three were evacuated to a waiting ambulance. The avalanche appeared to be a loose dry avalanche that gained mass and was concentrated in the steep gullied terrain
- Terrain trap
- Gully depression
- Group activity
- Skiing
- Number injured
- 0
- Number involved
- 3
- Number caught only
- 3
- Number fully buried
- 0
- Snow depth trigger point
- Shallow
- Terrain shape trigger point
- Planar
- Number partly buried able breathing
- 0