- Submitted by
- mirkoarcais
- Observations date
- Sunday, February 28, 2021 at 16:00
- Location
- 51.555219° N 116.247552° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Sunday, February 28, 2021 at 09:00
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- Less than 12 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 1
- Slab thickness
- 60cm
- Slab width
- 15m
- Run length
- 30m
- Avalanche Character
- Wind slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Accidental
- Start zone aspect
- SE
- Start zone elevation band
- Treeline
- Start zone elevation
- 2,400m
- Weak layer crystal type
- Facets
- Wind exposure
- Cross-loaded slope
- Vegetation cover
- Sparse trees or gladed slope
Comments
Touchy conditions on South Hector. recent snow + recent wind + sitting on top of faceted snow. Experienced Shooting cracks on the way up. We found windslabs to be easy to trigger. We avoided steep and unsupported features for this obvious reasons, but still managed to trigger some small windslabs at treeline. All these observations suggested for conservative choices
