- Submitted by
- wilfrid
- Observations date
- Saturday, March 6, 2021 at 18:00
- Location
- 50.361546° N 122.449285° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
/-122.44928532716233,50.361545967692024,8,0,0/1026x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiYXZhbGFuY2hlY2FuYWRhIiwiYSI6ImNqd2dvZmUxdzE4ZWg0M2tkaXpuNG95aTQifQ.pBLM87fE3sIxRJqJT7Bf7g "equinox slid")
Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Friday, March 5, 2021 at 14:00
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 2
- Slab thickness
- 20cm
- Slab width
- 100m
- Run length
- 1,000m
- Avalanche Character
- Storm slab
- Trigger type
- Natural
- Start zone aspect
- N
- Start zone elevation band
- Alpine
- Start zone elevation
- 2,000m
- Start zone incline
- 40°
- Runout zone elevation
- 1,600m
- Wind exposure
- Lee slope
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
Comments
Equinox (top) slid some time just before the end of the storm (March 5th 2:00pm was a guess). It looks like it started below the ridge crest but it may have started higher on pascall.
It ran for about 400 vertical meters. The crown looked small (maybe 20-30cm) and there were no big chunks in the debris. It was full width.
I did a compression test on the west side of pascall just below ridge crest that indicated failure at about 20 cm down (9th elbow tap/ CTM19).
