Quartz Hill Avalanche
Observed Jan 14, 2026, 9:50 a.m. PST · Central Rockies
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Avalanche report
- Comment
- Attempted to ski cut this convex roll, but did not see any results or shooting cracks. Upon skiing the convex roll, it avalanched a Size 1 Persistent Slab and propagated 20-25m with a 80-100cm crown line, ran about 5 metres before the slope angle prevented it from going further. Sunny, blue bird day with moderate winds in the morning increasing to strong towards noon, suspected culprit was the January 3rd SH layer, upon inspecting the bed surface, we found 3mm sized surface hoar. Top 10-20cm was F hard DF, 20-80cm was 4F with the last 20cm above the Bed Surface 1F hardness SH was also noted on the surface 1-2mm in size.
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Wind exposure
- Lee slope
- Avalanche size
- 1
- Trigger sub type
- Intentional
- Start zone aspect
- NE
- Vegetation cover
- Sparse trees
- Avalanche character
- Persistent slab
- Crust near weak layer
- No
- Number of avalanches
- 1
- Start zone elevation
- 2300
- Runout zone elevation
- 2300
- Weak layer burial date
- 2026-01-03
- Avalanche observation
- 12hrsAgo
- Weak layer crystal type
- Surface hoar
- Start zone elevation band
- Tln
- Avalanche occurrence datetime
- 2026-01-14T17:50:00.000Z