- Submitted by
- peteranowicki
- Observations date
- Monday, April 8, 2019 at 19:00
- Location
- 50.068541° N 122.859353° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
/-122.85935280615882,50.06854080996203,8,0,0/1026x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiYXZhbGFuY2hlY2FuYWRhIiwiYSI6ImNqd2dvZmUxdzE4ZWg0M2tkaXpuNG95aTQifQ.pBLM87fE3sIxRJqJT7Bf7g)
Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Activity
- Skiing
Group details
- Total in the group?
- 2
- People fully buried?
- 0
- People partly buried with normal breathing?
- 0
- People not injured (caught but not buried)?
- 0
- People involved?
- 0
Terrain details
- Terrain shape at trigger point
- Concave
Comments
Went to ski decker main. It was somewhat wind loaded, my buddy and I discussed safe points and the possibility of skiing the whole line without stopping if it was safe. He dropped first and made a 20ish m ski cut across the right half of the face, nothing happened. He started skiing down, snow seemed pretty stable so he skied all the way to the bottom. I dropped in and cut across his ski cut and then made a few turn on the right of his line. Snow was variable so I traversed over to the left side of his track, where it looked more consistent. As I was traversing the snow suddenly fractured 1or 2 m above me and propagated 30 m to the left with about a 15cm crown. I tried to continue traversing and get off the slab, but I didn’t have enough speed. The snow started pulling on my skis, one came off. I was able to self arrest, and pick my way down on one ski to collect the other after the snow settled.