- Submitted by
- jeff
- Observations date
- Tuesday, March 5, 2019 at 19:10
- Location
- 51.662630° N 116.346020° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Tuesday, March 5, 2019 at 11:53
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- From 12 to 24 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 1
- Avalanche Character
- Loose dry
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Accidental
- Start zone aspect
- E
- Start zone elevation band
- Alpine
- Weak layer crystal type
- Facets
- Wind exposure
- Cross-loaded slope
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
Comments
Over confident in moderate rating in the alpine, even though snow was variable at best. Conscious and cautious of convex features. Sluff developed behind me, gained mass, stepped down in a small lee loaded pocket, sluff and slab debris caught up to me near the bottom. Saw the slab chunks at my feet moving slowly, pulled the JetForce not knowing if more was coming, Did not need it in the end, just covered my boots. No injury. Take away,; loose dry avalanches move easily and can step down and become more serious. A skier triggered sluff near the summit on a similar aspect was noticed afterwards.
