Avalanche in Little Simpsons Gulch
Observed Feb 17, 2024, 12:45 p.m. PST · Northwest Coast
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Quick report
- Comment
- Close call today. See avalanche section of report for details
- Weather
- Sunny
- Ride type
- Alpine slopes, Convex slopes, Open trees, Steep slopes, Sunny slopes
- Riding quality
- Good
- Snow conditions
- Crusty, Wind affected
- Avalanche conditions
- Avalanche condition slab
Avalanche report
- Comment
- We were confident from the forecast and skiing a high consequence line on climber’s right of Little Simpsons Gulch on HBM. I was skiing a steep NE facing sunny pitch below a convexity, and it started to slide around me. Might have been triggered by dog above, see first picture. Since I was near the top of the slide, it went past me quickly, and I was able to ride it out on my hip for the short time I was in it. I watched it funnel through short trees below me and continue a long way to valley bottom. No injuries. Slab was ~20cm thick, ~50m wide where it started before funneling into a narrower trap
- Run length
- 600
- Slab width
- 50
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Avalanche size
- 2.5
- Slab thickness
- 20
- Trigger sub type
- Accidental
- Start zone aspect
- NE
- Vegetation cover
- Sparse trees
- Start zone incline
- 45
- Avalanche character
- Persistent slab
- Number of avalanches
- 1
- Start zone elevation
- 1300
- Runout zone elevation
- 1000
- Weak layer burial date
- 2024-01-25
- Avalanche observation
- 12hrsAgo
- Start zone elevation band
- Btl
- Avalanche occurrence datetime
- 2024-02-17T20:45:00.000Z