- Submitted by
- Kursten Smith
- Observations date
- Tuesday, December 20, 2016 at 16:40
- Location
- 51.210720° N 117.467820° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Activity
- Skiing
Group details
- Total in the group?
- 3
- People partly buried with normal breathing?
- 1
- People involved?
- 1
Terrain details
- Terrain shape at trigger point
- Planar
Comments
1x SA sz 1 on E aspect 2050 m Crown 30 - 50 cm on Dec 19 below Asulkan Hut , Partial burial , no lost equipment, no injuries. the involved person was able to cough up the snow in their mouth
We put a skin track across a lee slope and traveled with spacing between use. When the 2nd person arrived at the crest to join the 1st , the 3rd was in the middle of the slope with about 15m of slope above. The slab propagated form near where the first 2 where standing, released and knocked the 3rd off their feet with a dense slab.