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Mt Whymper North Bowl

Published
Apr 14th, 2018 11:00 AM
Pierre-Yves Gratton
Glacier
Details

Type

weather

Coordinates

51.225680, -116.103560

Quick Observation

Witnessed 3 skier triggered avalanches on 04/14 Upper portion of Mt Whymper North Bowl: a point release/sluff slide on the west side of the upper slope; a point release/sluff slide on the east side of the upper slope. A slab avalanche occured minutes after the sluff slide in the east portion of the upper bowl: likely skier triggered as there was someone on the slope. Hard to tell if it was new instabilities introduced from the previous slide. During our descent we came across another slab release in a small chute. It's assumed it was skier triggered though I didn't confirm when we met the people in the parking lot who may have caused it. All the avalanches above were size 1.5 to 2

Weather

In the North Bowl there was little to no wind how ever there was lots of spin drift coming off the headwalls. Wind loading was likely occuring in some locations as there were sections where the wind was gusting moderate to strong.