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size one surprise in surprise pass

Published
Feb 24th, 2024 11:30 AM
Darian Spagrud
Lake Louise
Details

Type

quick

Coordinates

51.397414, -116.239075

Avalanche Information
skiing up from the lake to ski the bowl out, in sparse trees climbers left of main path rounded a small hump and noticed an obvious wind slab. went to back up and it remote triggered just above me, propogated to my skis but didnt pull me down. occured in gulley feature that caused the snow to run quite a distance. suspected feb 3rd crust with facets on top, but two layers visible when looking at the crown, did not investigate further. turned around as aspect the slab occured on was the same as our planned route. use caution when skiing surprise pass as good potential for windslab at the top
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