Dashboard Regions Weather Stations Radar Alerts Glossary
Contact About
Log In

Register for an account and never miss a forecast again!

Register

Sugarbowl

Published
Nov 8th, 2018 12:00 PM
Matt Stelmaschuk
Chic-Choc Mountains
Details

Type

avalanche

Coordinates

53.867730, -121.664530

Avalanche Information

1st skier triggered sluff on steep convexity. Sluff gained mass and entrained top 15cm of low-density snow down shallow gully feature to bottom of slope.

Snowpack

Moderate compression test results down 55cm at previous storm interface with resistant planar and broken shears on DFs and stellars. 4F above and 1F below. No propagation with extended column test (ECTN 15).