- Submitted by
- jim
- Observations date
- Sunday, March 25, 2018 at 22:30
- Location
- 49.926470° N 123.041600° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Sunday, March 25, 2018 at 15:30
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- Less than 12 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 1.5
- Slab thickness
- 45cm
- Slab width
- 50m
- Run length
- 100m
- Avalanche Character
- Storm slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Intentional
- Start zone aspect
- NW
- Start zone elevation band
- Below treeline
- Start zone elevation
- 1,550m
- Crust near weak layer
- Yes
- Wind exposure
- No wind exposure
- Vegetation cover
- Sparse trees or gladed slope
Comments
Ski cut triggered good size storm slab on firm crust below. Interestingly, similar shapes a few hundred meters higher (with more wind load) were less reactive. Significant hangfire forced us to leave the feature before more detailed obs could be taken.
