- Submitted by
- jamespanozzo
- Observations date
- Saturday, January 15, 2022 at 19:30
- Location
- 49.563387° N 117.879346° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
/-117.87934612035559,49.56338703566655,8,0,0/1026x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiYXZhbGFuY2hlY2FuYWRhIiwiYSI6ImNqd2dvZmUxdzE4ZWg0M2tkaXpuNG95aTQifQ.pBLM87fE3sIxRJqJT7Bf7g "Norns Natural Cycle")
Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Wednesday, January 12, 2022 at 20:20
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- More than 48 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 6 to 10
- The size of avalanche
- 3
- Avalanche Character
- Persistent slab
- Storm slab
- Trigger type
- Natural
- Start zone aspect
- N
- NE
- NW
- Start zone elevation band
- Alpine
- Treeline
- Start zone elevation
- 2,400m
- Wind exposure
- Lee slope
- Vegetation cover
- Sparse trees or gladed slope
Comments
I would guess these avalanches were from a natural cycle earlier this week (wed / thurs)
Many storm slabs stepped down to the persistent weak layer
Elevations of crowns ranged from 2400-2100m
Aspects NW-NE
Very wide propagation on some PWL slides
