Hankin
Observed Mar 29, 2026, 3:00 p.m. PDT · Northwest Coast
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Quick report
- Weather
- Cloudy
- Ride type
- Alpine slopes, Steep slopes
- Stayed away
- Convex slopes
- Riding quality
- Good
- Snow conditions
- Powder
- Avalanche conditions
- Avalanche condition snow
Avalanche report
- Comment
- A group of two were digging roughly 100cms in depth to dig out part of the NE facing cornice near the top of Hankin, lead person digging miss judged the appropriate depth to enter the edge of the cornice and overall size from the bottom of the feature. Which set of a 2m by 4m cornice which resulted in a dry loose avalanche which ran to the bottom of the feature
- Run length
- 580
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Wind exposure
- Lee slope
- Avalanche size
- 1.5
- Trigger sub type
- Intentional
- Start zone aspect
- NE
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
- Start zone incline
- 40
- Avalanche character
- Loose dry, Cornice only
- Crust near weak layer
- No
- Number of avalanches
- 1
- Start zone elevation
- 1740
- Runout zone elevation
- 1350
- Avalanche observation
- 12hrsAgo
- Start zone elevation band
- Alp
- Avalanche occurrence datetime
- 2026-03-29T22:00:00.000Z
Snowpack report
- Depth
- 300
- Comment
- Dug a ECT at tree line below the main north bowl ridge in a sheltered area above the trees, no results on a etc and had some difficulty prying the block off the column and it broke unevenly across the base of the column, inspected PWL at 140cms and found mixed forms of rounds and some facets 0.5-2mm.
- Obs type
- Point
- Site aspect
- NE
- Site elevation
- 1540
- Test initiation
- None
- Foot penetration
- 40
- Cracking observed
- No
- Site elevation band
- Tln
- Surface conditions
- New snow
- Whumpfing observed
- No
Weather report
- Comment
- In and out light flurries throughout the day with blowing snow to the E calm to light winds throughout the day with slight cooling throughout the day with a air temp of -9 at 1300
- Wind speed
- Wind speed light
- Blowing snow
- Light
- Sky condition
- Broken clouds
- Wind direction
- W
- New snow24hours
- 2
- Storm start date
- 2026-03-27
- Storm snow amount
- 20
- Temperature trend
- Steady
- Precipitation type
- None
Incident report
- Group size
- 2
- Description
- While digging into a cornice lead person digging misjudged the depth and size of cornice, when the cornice was triggered it pulled back 4-8ft into the rocky ridge which caused the lead person digging to fall into the dry loose avalanche. They were able to stay on top of the avalanche and self recovered and walked away uninjured
- Terrain trap
- Slope transition or bench, Trees
- Group activity
- Skiing
- Number involved
- 1
- Number caught only
- 1
- Snow depth trigger point
- Deep
- Terrain shape trigger point
- Concave