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Sz 1.5 skier triggered wind slab

Published
Mar 20th, 2022 1:00 PM
noahcvarley
Ymir
Details

Type

incident

Coordinates

49.434920, -117.119630

Incident

Traversing from the top of Ymir on the E side to get to the entrance of the Ymir bench route, we witnessed a skier from another party of 2 trigger a size 1.5 and get carried ~50 m down the slope. The slope was heavily wind loaded and the wind slab was sitting on a very hard crust. They stayed above the surface, were not injured and were able to skin back up to the ridge. Slide happened on a similar aspect/elevation to the one in Kutetl on 03-19.