- Submitted by
- big dog
- Observations date
- Thursday, January 25, 2024 at 06:40
- Location
- 51.213980° N 117.461430° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 18:40
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- Less than 12 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 2 to 5
- The size of avalanche
- 1
- Slab thickness
- 10cm
- Slab width
- 20m
- Run length
- 30m
- Avalanche Character
- Loose dry
- Wind slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Accidental
- Start zone aspect
- NE
- Start zone elevation band
- Alpine
- Start zone elevation
- 2,090m
- Start zone incline
- 38°
- Runout zone elevation
- 2,070m
- Weak layer burial date
- Tuesday, January 23, 2024
- Weak layer crystal type
- Storm snow
- Crust near weak layer
- No
- Wind exposure
- Windward slope
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
Comments
Skied 6 of 7 steps from Asulkan this morning.
Everything above the hut is wind blown, compact, below was more wind loaded
Below the Pterodactyl we were skiing a short path, both commented on the wind slab / potential for avalanche before first skier entered , ski cut did not trigger anything, second jump turn caused the slab to go, didn’t run far
Essentially the same thing occurred 100m down slope as we traversed across towards the ridge
Valley bottom looked very low tide, rocky. Large openings in the glacier , had to ski far skiers right
You can see debris on FatMaps where previous slides occurred, I marked where ours happened