- Submitted by
- Martin Labuda
- Observations date
- Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at 21:00
- Location
- 50.669270° N 116.542980° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at 15:00
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 1
- The size of avalanche
- 2
- Slab width
- 30m
- Run length
- 100m
- Avalanche Character
- Storm slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Accidental
- Start zone aspect
- S
- Start zone elevation band
- Treeline
- Start zone elevation
- 2,150m
Comments
Party of 4 skinning up below a small convex feature. First 2 people crossed. Third person started crossing and triggered a slab above him, about 40 m. Two people were swept off their feet and partially buried against small christmas trees. Needed help to be dug out. Luckily no injuries nor equipment lost. Suspect Dec 10th layer. Touchy snow conditions out there!
On Dec. 14, when the sky cleared, we observed multiple Na avalanches to sz. 3 on N and S aspects in Alp and TL.