Avalanche
- Trigger Type
- Natural
- Avalanche Type
- Wet Loose
- Start Zone Aspect
- North
- Avalanche Problem
- Wet Snow
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2591 m
My partner and I got pinned down in the ynot by wet sluffing today. They are started about Noon. A couple of these were big, more than you could describe as manageable. They would have buried a person. The avalanches were frequent repeating as often as every 5 minutes or faster at times. They seemed to have run their course by about 2:00 PM.
The snow that we were generally traveling on, as in booting in the chute, was generally hard. As such, we weren't really heads up about the chute starting to let loose. I think the snow that was actually moving was on the steep rocky walls on the sides of the upper part of the chute. Of course, we weren't up there so it's hard to know what was moving.
I'm avoiding the whole play by play thing here, but I'm happy to share if people want. Send me an email if you're interested. This was a very serious situation and it's not lost us that we made a pretty incredible miscalculation. We're very lucky that no one was seriously hurt or worse.