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Approach to Armchair Glacier Avalanche

Published
Mar 14th, 2021 4:00 PM
sjcarnegie
Duffey
Details

Type

incident

Coordinates

50.401185, -122.503051

Incident

Working our way to lower part of armchair glacier through the trees and came to a small gully to cross. The treed slope we were ascending was very crusty and wind scoured. We saw signs of slabbing in the top 3 cm, but below it was very firm. Entered the gully below a convex roll to traverse and remotely triggered a shallow slab 30m above spanning the gully immediately. Slab was formed from wind deposited snow. Carried by avalanche for 250m, and run out stopped another 150m below.