- Submitted by
- sobikeski
- Observations date
- Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 23:00
- Location
- 54.814330° N 126.870370° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Sunday, January 19, 2020 at 12:00
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- More than 48 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 2.5
- Run length
- 200m
- Start zone aspect
- SW
- Start zone elevation band
- Alpine
- Start zone elevation
- 1,740m
- Runout zone elevation
- 1,610m
- Wind exposure
- Reverse-loaded slope
- Vegetation cover
- Sparse trees or gladed slope
Comments
Gulley had scattered avalanche debris (10 cm diameter broken trees) embedded in hard snow. Only 10 cm of fresh snow on top, so given recent snowfall, the avalanche probably happened 2 to 3 days ago. Trees in path leaning and stripped of branches. Trees outside of path have much more snow. Puzzled by smooth surface of snow and smooth edges of obviously destructive path. No snow chunks visible. Likely started near ridge. No crown visible (poor light).
Date and time are guesses.
