- Submitted by
- harwoodpaul
- Observations date
- Wednesday, January 2, 2019 at 20:00
- Location
- 49.077760° N 120.899860° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Wednesday, January 2, 2019 at 12:00
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 1.5
- Slab thickness
- 40cm
- Slab width
- 30m
- Avalanche Character
- Storm slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Intentional
- Start zone aspect
- NW
- Start zone elevation band
- Treeline
- Start zone elevation
- 1,825m
- Weak layer burial date
- Wednesday, December 26, 2018
- Weak layer crystal type
- Surface hoar
- Crust near weak layer
- No
- Wind exposure
- Lee slope
- Vegetation cover
- Sparse trees or gladed slope
Comments
Ski cut below the little cornice that always forms. Size 1.5 with enough speed and mass running into the trees to bang you up if you went for a ride. Dec 26 SH was generally down 30-40. Much more stubborn than a few days ago, you had to hit the right spot to get it to go with skis. In snowpack tests on three day old fracture line it was unreactive to ECT, and moderate-hard on compression test.
