- Submitted by
- rhys.badenoch
- Observations date
- Sunday, February 16, 2020 at 19:15
- Location
- 51.287134° N 117.103906° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Sunday, February 16, 2020 at 12:15
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- From 12 to 24 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 1.5
- Run length
- 200m
- Avalanche Character
- Wind slab
- Trigger type
- Natural
- Start zone aspect
- NE
- Start zone elevation band
- Alpine
- Start zone elevation
- 2,500m
- Wind exposure
- Lee slope
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
Comments
The headwall of ozone north went natural size 1-1.5 from peak down to bottom of the bowl. Seemed to just be the wind load. Didn't step down.