- Submitted by
- Josh Fischbuch
- Observations date
- Monday, December 14, 2020 at 20:30
- Location
- 51.472388° N 116.120132° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Monday, December 14, 2020 at 13:30
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 1
- Slab thickness
- 10cm
- Slab width
- 7m
- Run length
- 200m
- Avalanche Character
- Loose dry
- Wind slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Accidental
- Start zone aspect
- S
- SE
- Start zone elevation band
- Alpine
- Start zone elevation
- 2,550m
- Runout zone elevation
- 2,350m
- Weak layer crystal type
- Storm snow
- Crust near weak layer
- Yes
- Wind exposure
- Cross-loaded slope
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
Comments
Skier triggered slide on south face of Richardson ridge(dog leg) across from lake Louise ski area. Top of the feature was cross loaded from the small amount of snow and high winds seen the previous night. Started as a slab but immediately broke up when going through the choke of the feature and continued as loose dry down to valley bottom. Small crown approx 10 cm deep and 25-30ft wide but ran to near valley bottom due to incline>30 degree. Debris field was quite small and only about a metre deep at thickest point. No one caught in the slide as I was able to self arrest at the first signs of slab splitting off and other members of the party were above and safe on the ridge

