- Submitted by
- Aitchbee
- Observations date
- Thursday, March 9, 2017 at 19:00
- Location
- 50.421070° N 116.167880° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
/-116.16788,50.42107,8,0,0/1026x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiYXZhbGFuY2hlY2FuYWRhIiwiYSI6ImNqd2dvZmUxdzE4ZWg0M2tkaXpuNG95aTQifQ.pBLM87fE3sIxRJqJT7Bf7g "Mount Goldie")
Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Thursday, March 9, 2017 at 12:40
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- Less than 12 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 2 to 5
- The size of avalanche
- 2.5
- Slab thickness
- 100cm
- Slab width
- 100m
- Run length
- 350m
- Avalanche Character
- Deep persistent slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Remote
- Remote trigger distance
- 100m
- Start zone aspect
- E
- Start zone elevation band
- Treeline
- Start zone elevation
- 2,450m
- Weak layer burial date
- Saturday, November 12, 2016
- Weak layer crystal type
- Depth hoar
- Facets
- Crust near weak layer
- Yes
- Wind exposure
- Lee slope
Comments
An avalanche was triggered remotely whilst skinning up the East side of the North ridge of Mt Goldie, approx 650m from the summit. A very loud whumph was heard as we broke through the treeline, which triggered a size 2 avalanche approximately 100m away. This slide then caused a further size 2.5 avalanche to occur across much of the bowl on the North East side of Mt Goldie, starting in the alpine, close to the summit.
Picture attached is of the second avalanche.
