- Submitted by
- findscarns
- Observations date
- Sunday, March 14, 2021 at 23:00
- Location
- 50.401185° N 122.503051° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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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)?
- 1
- People involved?
- 1
Terrain details
- Terrain shape at trigger point
- Convex
- Snow depth at trigger point
- Shallow
- Terrain traps
- Gully or depression
Comments
Working our way to lower part of armchair glacier through the trees and came to a small gully to cross.
The treed slope we were ascending was very crusty and wind scoured. We saw signs of slabbing in the top 3 cm, but below it was very firm.
Entered the gully below a convex roll to traverse and remotely triggered a shallow slab 30m above spanning the gully immediately. Slab was formed from wind deposited snow.
Carried by avalanche for 250m, and run out stopped another 150m below.