Mt English

Activity

Skiing

Total in the group?

2

People not injured (caught but not buried)?

1

People involved?

1

Terrain shape at trigger point

Convex

Snow depth at trigger point

Average

Terrain traps

• No obvious terrain trap

Super sunny day out at English and a late start so we stuck to conservative North aspect terrain. Only got up to about 1900m, on the way up had one shooting crack propagating about 5m from skis but no whoomphing. Higher up along ridge had evidence of wind effect and pockets of sun affected crust. Decided we would ski as densely treed areas as possible and avoid convexities.

First skier traversing in a more open clearing between two tightly treed pitches around 1800m released a slab 60-70cm deep on the Jan 30 SH layer. Skier went for a ride but was able to stay on his feet and ski out of the path about 15m down from the crown. Slide ran 30-40m.