- Submitted by
- Dan Edmonson
- Observations date
- Saturday, December 19, 2020 at 17:58
- Location
- 49.625140° N 116.603740° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Sunday, December 20, 2020 at 10:58
- Estimated occurrence time of avalanche
- From 12 to 24 hours ago
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 1
- Avalanche Character
- Storm slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Accidental
- Start zone elevation band
- Treeline
- Start zone elevation
- 2,300m
- Crust near weak layer
- Yes
Comments
Grey creek pass riding tree line roughly 2300m above see level storm snow pulled away from melt freeze crust avalanche went about 150m about 25cm crown storm snow was very touchy
