Mount Caspar
Observed Feb 1, 2025, 7:00 p.m. PST · Southwest Coast
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Avalanche report
- Comment
- Skier remote triggered avalanche at ridge top. Party was skinning up ridge and looked back to see debris. Did not see initiation, but suspected to have occurred minutes before. Start zone incline was roughly in mid 30s, even lower in places. Initially 1 finger-pencil dense wind slab at ridge top, then lower in the slope sympathetically triggered soft storm slab and entraining loose dry. Suspected weak layer Jan 30th Facets below crust. No involvement.
- Run length
- 300
- Slab width
- 50
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Wind exposure
- Lee slope
- Avalanche size
- 2.5
- Trigger sub type
- Remote
- Start zone aspect
- N, NW
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
- Avalanche character
- Storm slab, Wind slab
- Crust near weak layer
- Yes
- Number of avalanches
- 1
- Start zone elevation
- 2100
- Weak layer burial date
- 2025-01-30
- Weak layer crystal type
- Facets
- Start zone elevation band
- Alp
- Avalanche occurrence datetime
- 2025-02-01T20:34:00.000Z