- Submitted by
- sean.haggarty
- Observations date
- Tuesday, March 17, 2026 at 16:00
- Location
- 51.285870° N 117.089240° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Tuesday, March 17, 2026 at 16:00
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- Less than 12 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 1
- Slab thickness
- 20cm
- Slab width
- 5m
- Run length
- 250m
- Avalanche Character
- Storm slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Accidental
- Start zone aspect
- NW
- Start zone elevation band
- Alpine
- Start zone elevation
- 2,200m
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
Comments
Slab released 2nd turn and propagated the width of the chute as it ran down the chute. Propagation stopped as the slide ran into the fans. Slide ran from top of chute to the bottom of the fans
