- Submitted by
- ryanahuetter
- Observations date
- Thursday, March 16, 2017 at 21:30
- Location
- 50.389300° N 122.497850° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Thursday, March 16, 2017 at 14:30
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- Less than 12 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 1.5
- Slab thickness
- 60cm
- Slab width
- 50m
- Run length
- 200m
- Avalanche Character
- Persistent slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Remote
- Remote trigger distance
- 60m
- Start zone aspect
- S
- Start zone elevation band
- Treeline
- Start zone elevation
- 1,900m
- Start zone incline
- 35°
- Vegetation cover
- Sparse trees or gladed slope
Comments
Skier triggered D1.5 near trigger point not visible from above. Southern slope with 15cm of new on top of the previous rain crust. Slope whoomphed and settled, releasing above on the slope's convexity. Neither members of party caught or carried. Small trees broken in runout zone.
