Quartz Lake Sledder Remote
Observed Jan 21, 2022, 12:00 p.m. PST · purcells
This report was submitted with an older form.
Avalanche report
- Comment
- Sledder crossing lower runout. Saw small trees shed their snow & looked up to see the slab release above. No involvement. Numerous other natural and machine triggered wind slabs observed in riding area in alpine and tree line. Size 1-2. Max depth 40cm, max propagation 50m.
- Run length
- 300
- Slab width
- 150
- Trigger type
- Snowmobile
- Wind exposure
- Lee slope
- Avalanche size
- 2.5
- Slab thickness
- 100
- Trigger sub type
- Remote
- Start zone aspect
- N
- Trigger distance
- 250
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
- Start zone incline
- 40
- Avalanche character
- Persistent slab
- Crust near weak layer
- Yes
- Number of avalanches
- 1
- Start zone elevation
- 2100
- Runout zone elevation
- 1800
- Weak layer burial date
- 2021-12-03T00:15:00.000Z
- Weak layer crystal type
- Facets
- Start zone elevation band
- Tln
- Avalanche occurrence datetime
- 2022-01-21T13:00:00