- Submitted by
- tlaberge
- Observations date
- Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 18:30
- Location
- 51.285393° N 117.566880° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 18:30
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- Less than 12 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 2 to 5
- The size of avalanche
- 1
- Slab thickness
- 10cm
- Slab width
- 15m
- Run length
- 30m
- Avalanche Character
- Storm slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Accidental
- Start zone aspect
- NW
- Start zone elevation band
- Alpine
- Start zone elevation
- 2,200m
- Start zone incline
- 35°
- Weak layer crystal type
- Storm snow
- Crust near weak layer
- No
- Wind exposure
- Lee slope
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
Comments
About 10-15 cm of new snow in the last 24h. We easily triggers 2 storm slab while skiing nicky’s notch. One of them propagated very far on steep terrain. The other one went very far down the slope because of steep terrain. Photos are not very clear because of low light on north aspect.
