- Submitted by
- leslenas
- Observations date
- Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at 23:00
- Location
- 50.071460° N 122.872060° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
/-122.87206,50.07146,8,0,0/1026x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiYXZhbGFuY2hlY2FuYWRhIiwiYSI6ImNqd2dvZmUxdzE4ZWg0M2tkaXpuNG95aTQifQ.pBLM87fE3sIxRJqJT7Bf7g "Natural avalanche at treeline")
Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at 15:00
- 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
- 40cm
- Slab width
- 15m
- Run length
- 30m
- Avalanche Character
- Wind slab
- Trigger type
- Natural
- Start zone aspect
- S
- SW
- Start zone elevation band
- Treeline
- Start zone elevation
- 2,040m
- Wind exposure
- Reverse-loaded slope
- Vegetation cover
- Sparse trees or gladed slope
Comments
Came across this slide this afternoon, looked fairly fresh. Also had some loud gunshot like whumpfs and shooting cracks while crossing wind slabs higher in the alpine on Southern aspects though the slope angles were not steep enough to produce any results.
