- Submitted by
- Samuel L Johnson
- Observations date
- Saturday, February 8, 2020 at 17:30
- Location
- 49.352152° N 119.907603° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Saturday, February 8, 2020 at 09:30
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- Less than 12 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 2 to 5
- The size of avalanche
- 3.5
- Run length
- 250m
- Avalanche Character
- Storm slab
- Trigger type
- Snowmobile
- Trigger subtype
- Accidental
- Start zone aspect
- N
- Start zone elevation band
- Alpine
- Start zone elevation
- 2,200m
- Runout zone elevation
- 1,900m
Comments
Large avalanche triggered in Powder 8. 3 Snowmobiles descended a a gully triggering many chutes to release at the top of mountain creating large class 3 avalanche. 1 rider partially buried and snowmobile buried. Use extreme caution.