Small natural off the shoulder of Skypilot
Observed Dec 4, 2017, 11:00 a.m. PST · south-coast
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Quick report
- Weather
- Cold
- Ride type
- Steep slopes
- Riding quality
- Amazing
- Snow conditions
- Powder
Avalanche report
- Comment
- Saw a wind slab that propagated a lot further than I expected today. Not sure when it ripped out, I'm guessing yesterday. I've skied up in the Sky Pilot area 3 of the last 4 days and this was the only evidence of activity beyond loose sluffs. This steep pitch is in a unique and undoubtedly very windy location at the head of the drainage. It's possible it was intentionally triggered from the top, but nobody else reported it, so figured I'd mention.
- Run length
- 300
- Slab width
- 100
- Trigger type
- Natural
- Avalanche size
- 1.5
- Slab thickness
- 15
- Start zone aspect
- NE, N
- Avalanche character
- Wind slab
- Number of avalanches
- 1
- Start zone elevation
- 1500
- Avalanche observation
- 12hrsAgo
- Start zone elevation band
- Tln
- Avalanche occurrence datetime
- 2017-12-03T12:00:00