- Submitted by
- Will Orrey
- Observations date
- Saturday, December 26, 2020 at 21:00
- Location
- 50.992410° N 118.081722° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Saturday, December 26, 2020 at 13:00
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 1.5
- Slab thickness
- 40cm
- Slab width
- 15m
- Run length
- 120m
- Avalanche Character
- Storm slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Intentional
- Start zone aspect
- N
- Start zone elevation band
- Treeline
- Weak layer crystal type
- Surface hoar
- Crust near weak layer
- Yes
- Wind exposure
- No wind exposure
- Vegetation cover
- Sparse trees or gladed slope
Comments
First ski cut released sluff that ran. Second cut no affect. Third cut released the avalanche. Crown was from 10cm to 40cm. This was at lovers lane. Ran all the way to the skin track below.
