Balu Pass

Published

Feb 25th, 2017 11:48 AM

hamilldelprado

Glacier

Details

Type

weather

Coordinates

51.282490, -117.579200

Avalanche Information

Skier triggered, size 0.5-1 wind slab at an elevation of ~2100m. E SE aspect, lee slope, convexity.

Incident

Shooting cracks was observed by standby skier while other skier was making turns and triggered a size 0.5-1 wind slab. Caught skier managed to ski towards skier's left to avoid being caught. Start zone was on an East lee and convex slope with some obvious wind transport from W SW winds.