St Nicholas Remote
Observed Apr 11, 2025, 11:00 a.m. PDT · Central Rockies
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Quick report
- Weather
- Cloudy, Stormy
- Ride type
- Alpine slopes, Mellow slopes, Sunny slopes
- Stayed away
- Convex slopes, Steep slopes
- Riding quality
- Ok
- Snow conditions
- Crusty, Powder, Wind affected
- Avalanche conditions
- Avalanche condition slab, Avalanche condition sound
Avalanche report
- Comment
- Skied around the bow area today hoping for better vis. We were on plan C to see where we could get to on St Nic. We skinned along the upper bench, already deciding we were not going to ski the steeper slopes, but travel as far as we could towards the summit. Hand shears showed moderate planer results of the 4F windslab 40cm deep on a 2cm crust, confirming our decision to not ski the slope. As we traveled out further along the 4 meter wide bench to investigate if the upper slopes had cleaned out, we had a deep whumph remote triggering the slope below at 40 meters away. Crown depth was 40-90cm for the windslab. We believe the whumph initiated the DPS, and released the windslab above it. No iinvolvement.
- Run length
- 300
- Slab width
- 200
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Avalanche size
- 2.5
- Trigger sub type
- Remote
- Start zone aspect
- E
- Trigger distance
- 40
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
- Start zone incline
- 45
- Avalanche character
- Deep persistent slab, Wind slab
- Number of avalanches
- 1
- Start zone elevation
- 3000
- Weak layer crystal type
- Depth hoar
- Start zone elevation band
- Alp
- Avalanche occurrence datetime
- 2025-04-11T17:45:00.000Z