- Submitted by
- Hyland Backcountry
- Observations date
- Wednesday, November 26, 2025 at 17:00
- Location
- 54.840720° N 127.806270° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Wednesday, November 26, 2025 at 20:00
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- Less than 12 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 1.5
- Run length
- 150m
- Avalanche Character
- Wind slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Intentional
- Start zone aspect
- N
- Start zone elevation band
- Treeline
- Start zone elevation
- 1,600m
- Start zone incline
- 40°
- Weak layer burial date
- Tuesday, November 25, 2025
- Weak layer crystal type
- Surface hoar
- Crust near weak layer
- No
- Wind exposure
- Lee slope
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
Comments
251125 hoarfrost was buried on Tuesday night with up to 10cm of new snow. There was just enough wind with this to create some very reactive soft windslabs in immediate northerly lee terrain along ridgecrests. Easy to trigger just stomping along edge of start zone.
