- Submitted by
- Gig Kingsford
- Observations date
- Saturday, April 20, 2019 at 17:26
- Location
- 51.657577° N 116.346689° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Saturday, April 20, 2019 at 11:26
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 3.5
- Slab thickness
- 50cm
- Slab width
- 700m
- Run length
- 1,000m
- Avalanche Character
- Wind slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Remote
- Start zone aspect
- E
- SE
- Start zone elevation band
- Alpine
- Weak layer crystal type
- Storm snow
- Wind exposure
- Lee slope
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
Comments
Witnessed a large skier remote accidental avalanche off the east side of Dolomite shoulder this morning.
Confirmed the current avalanche summary and conditions.
Tucked tail and ran after watching this.
https://youtu.be/GjFSVcZhvLs
