Molars east face
Observed Feb 6, 2022, 12:30 p.m. PST · purcells
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Quick report
- Comment
- Got to open area on the lower part of the east face on molars today around 2:00pm. All 4 riders got past the pillow cliffs at the top of the zone, regrouped in safe spot before exiting the zone.
- Weather
- Warm, Sunny
- Ride type
- Convex slopes, Steep slopes
- Stayed away
- Sunny slopes
- Riding quality
- Good
- Snow conditions
- Heavy, Powder
- Avalanche conditions
- Avalanche condition sound, Avalanche condition temp, Avalanche condition slab
Avalanche report
- Comment
- 1st skiier traversed high right no reaction. 2nd skiier ski cut below first traverse on the face and a slab 20-30cm deep propagated 100m wide on surface hoar layer from Jan 30th and ran down to the bottom, skiier stayed put at top of crown. 3rd skiier then proceeded to traverse high right and once in front of the 2nd skiier he accidentally triggered a second slab propagating and extra 50m from the the ski cut and ran down to the bottom aswell. 4th skiier exited safely above the crown, 2nd skiier exited safely afterwards...
- Run length
- 65
- Slab width
- 150
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Wind exposure
- Cross loaded slope
- Avalanche size
- 2
- Slab thickness
- 25
- Trigger sub type
- Intentional
- Start zone aspect
- NE
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
- Start zone incline
- 45
- Avalanche character
- Storm slab, Wind slab
- Crust near weak layer
- Yes
- Number of avalanches
- 2-5
- Start zone elevation
- 1665
- Runout zone elevation
- 1600
- Weak layer burial date
- 2022-01-30T07:00:00.000Z
- Avalanche observation
- 12hrsAgo
- Weak layer crystal type
- Surface hoar
- Start zone elevation band
- Tln
- Avalanche occurrence datetime
- 2022-02-06T02:00:00
Snowpack report
- Obs type
- Point
- Site aspect
- NE
- Site elevation
- 1650
- Ski penetration
- 20
- Test initiation
- None
- Foot penetration
- 25
- Cracking observed
- Yes
- Site elevation band
- Tln
- Surface conditions
- Surface hoar
- Whumpfing observed
- No
Weather report
- Avg temp
- 3
- Comment
- Hot day out today riding Ozone north, rudis north and molars east.
- Max temp
- 5
- Wind speed
- Wind speed calm
- Blowing snow
- None
- Sky condition
- Clear
- New snow24hours
- 5
- Storm snow amount
- 5
- Temperature trend
- Rising
- Precipitation24hours
- 5
Incident report
- Group size
- 4
- Terrain trap
- Trees
- Group activity
- Skiing
- Number injured
- 0
- Number involved
- 0
- Number caught only
- 0
- Number fully buried
- 0
- Snow depth trigger point
- Deep
- Terrain shape trigger point
- Convex
- Number partly buried able breathing
- 0