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SE treeline SZ2avalnache facing Heros Knob

Published
Jan 29th, 2017 12:48 PM
Alex Wright
South Columbia
Details

Type

avalanche

Coordinates

50.739750, -115.285690

Avalanche Information

After crossing a heat and wind baked moraine we entered a terrain trap (duh) between Mount Murray and the moraine. Two hours previously we had completed two tests on the North aspect: hard shovel shear 80cm down on surface hoar and CT22 BRK 80cm down. A wumph was detected by one of three skiers who shouted and all three escaped to higher ground on the moraine. Luckily we were in a position to ski away from the SZ2 debris. Two crown lines were obvious at the apex of the slide.