- Submitted by
- stefboraks
- Observations date
- Monday, April 25, 2022 at 13:00
- Location
- 51.570640° N 116.461370° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Monday, April 25, 2022 at 01:00
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 2 to 5
- The size of avalanche
- 2.5
- Avalanche Character
- Cornice with slab
- Trigger type
- Natural
- Start zone aspect
- E
- Start zone elevation band
- Alpine
- Start zone elevation
- 2,920m
- Runout zone elevation
- 2,820m
- Wind exposure
- Cross-loaded slope
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
Comments
Ice fall led to slab avalanche on east slope of Mt Balfour after a saturday's high levels of solar input, run out covered previous day's skin tracks in crux of Wapta traverse. Ice chunks the size of small cars slid to center of pass.
