- Submitted by
- Parks Canada Visitor Safety
- Observations date
- Monday, February 26, 2024 at 21:20
- Location
- 51.474300° N 116.123060° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
/-116.12306,51.4743,8,0,0/1026x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiYXZhbGFuY2hlY2FuYWRhIiwiYSI6ImNqd2dvZmUxdzE4ZWg0M2tkaXpuNG95aTQifQ.pBLM87fE3sIxRJqJT7Bf7g "Size 2.5 Natural Lake Louise Backcountry - Speed Run")
Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Monday, February 26, 2024 at 21:20
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- Less than 12 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 2 to 5
- The size of avalanche
- 2.5
- Slab width
- 70m
- Run length
- 499m
- Avalanche Character
- Deep persistent slab
- Persistent slab
- Storm slab
- Trigger type
- Natural
- Start zone aspect
- SW
- Start zone elevation band
- Alpine
- Start zone elevation
- 2,550m
- Runout zone elevation
- 2,330m
- Weak layer burial date
- Friday, February 3, 2023
- Weak layer crystal type
- Facets
- Crust near weak layer
- Yes
- Wind exposure
- Cross-loaded slope
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
Comments
Observer not sure of the trigger. There has been significant recent loading and wind, but at the time of the observation, the winds were light. Perhaps the first rays of sunshine... The large avalanche sympathetically triggered the size 1.5 and 1 to the left. The lower part of the large avalanche stepped down to the basal facets at the ground.
