Tom George
Observed Feb 23, 2025, 8:00 a.m. PST · Northwest Coast
This report was submitted with an older form.
Quick report
- Weather
- Cloudy, Stormy
- Ride type
- Convex slopes, Dense trees, Mellow slopes, Open trees
- Riding quality
- Amazing
- Snow conditions
- Powder
- Avalanche conditions
- Avalanche condition snow, Avalanche condition sound
Avalanche report
- Comment
- Avalanche with a 20-60cm crown triggered on the mid-January buried surface hoar/facet interface. Accidentally triggered by the fourth rider on the slope who was caught, carried, and injured after impacting a tree in the runout. Debris reached the first three skiers, one of who was pushed 10m or so and who ejected from skis.
- Run length
- 85
- Slab width
- 30
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Wind exposure
- Cross loaded slope
- Avalanche size
- 2
- Slab thickness
- 60
- Trigger sub type
- Accidental
- Start zone aspect
- SE
- Vegetation cover
- Sparse trees
- Start zone incline
- 33
- Avalanche character
- Persistent slab
- Crust near weak layer
- No
- Number of avalanches
- 1
- Start zone elevation
- 1592
- Runout zone elevation
- 1526
- Weak layer burial date
- 2025-01-15
- Avalanche observation
- 12hrsAgo
- Weak layer crystal type
- Facets, Surface hoar
- Start zone elevation band
- Tln
- Avalanche occurrence datetime
- 2025-02-23T17:15:00.000Z
Snowpack report
- Comment
- 30cm or so of new snow NTL
- Obs type
- Summary
- Site elevation
- 1500
- Cracking observed
- No
- Site elevation band
- Btl, Tln
- Surface conditions
- New snow
- Whumpfing observed
- Yes
Weather report
- Wind speed
- Wind speed moderate
- Blowing snow
- Moderate
- Sky condition
- Overcast
- New snow24hours
- 30
- Precipitation type
- Snow
Incident report
- Group size
- 14
- Description
- 4th skier on slope, a splitboarder, caught, carried, and injured from a tree strike. When the debris settled, the splitboarder was able to sit upright with torso unburied, though feet and board were buried. Another skier lower down was pushed by the toe of the debris and lost skis, which were recovered.
- Terrain trap
- Slope transition or bench, Trees
- Group activity
- Skiing
- Number injured
- 1
- Number involved
- 2
- Number caught only
- 1
- Number fully buried
- 0
- Snow depth trigger point
- Variable
- Terrain shape trigger point
- Convex
- Number partly buried able breathing
- 0
- Number partly buried impaired breathing
- 0