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Camp West Lite avy/McGill main chute

Published
Dec 10th, 2021 11:00 AM
Erik
Little Yoho
Details

Type

quick

Coordinates

51.259367, -117.660508

Quick Observation

Skied camp west lite down to about 1500m and then bumped back up and skiing the McGill main chute. Evidence of debris in both. We did intentially trigger a dry loose avy at the top of camp west lite through breaking off cornice/windlip. Skiing was good! Nice low density snow and relatively deep up high

Avalanche Information

We broke some cornices/windlips off at the top of camp west lite. The first 3 were about human body weight size and had little effect, a bit of sloughing. The last one was rather large, perhaps the size of a small car. This triggered a dry loose avalanche, probably size 1.5/2 that took some of the debris from the previous cornice breaks and ran for quite a while! It seemed to be the top 30-40 didn't appear to run on the December 1st crust. It was low density snow and the debris itself was quite soft. It occurred as expected and as the bulletin had predicted.