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Mt Fernie, Batmans Avy

Published
Apr 19th, 2023 11:00 AM
hamishhepburn96
Robson
Details

Type

quick

Coordinates

49.524690, -115.121078

Avalanche Information

Batmans Chute on Mt Fernie. Conditions on skin up were good, little signs of instability within the trees and open spaces and fresh snow as we ascended higher. 8-12 cm of fresh snow layer on top of melt freeze crust providing a very slick surface for the slab. First skier triggered the slab after the first 10 turns of so, wet loose snow with a 12m wide crown. Slide was around 700m long. We continued gently down skiers right, ski cut and triggering several smaller size 1 avalanches. Overlaying snow was extremely unstable and slid easily on crust. We descended back through dense trees on skiers right to fairy creek road to avoid the risk of triggering more.