- Submitted by
- Bradley Lorriman
- Observations date
- Saturday, February 26, 2022 at 04:00
- Location
- 51.157870° N 116.948450° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
/-116.94845,51.15787,8,0,0/1026x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiYXZhbGFuY2hlY2FuYWRhIiwiYSI6ImNqd2dvZmUxdzE4ZWg0M2tkaXpuNG95aTQifQ.pBLM87fE3sIxRJqJT7Bf7g "12 Mile")
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Friday, February 25, 2022 at 20:00
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- Less than 12 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 2
- Slab thickness
- 40cm
- Slab width
- 50m
- Run length
- 200m
- Avalanche Character
- Wind slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Intentional
- Remote trigger distance
- 0m
- Start zone aspect
- SE
- Start zone elevation band
- Alpine
- Start zone elevation
- 2,400m
- Start zone incline
- 35°
- Runout zone elevation
- 2,200m
- Weak layer burial date
- Tuesday, February 15, 2022
- Weak layer crystal type
- Facets
- Crust near weak layer
- Yes
- Wind exposure
- Cross-loaded slope
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
Comments
Size 2 skier controlled wind slab running on Feb 15th sun crust. After bailing on our main objective, I was ski cutting down and along the SE aspect of the ridge to access a mellow south line. Triggered from a deeper pocket of breakable 1 finger windslab over faceted old storm snow.
