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Taylor lake small avalanche

Published
Dec 21st, 2020 12:00 AM
Jesse Aj Scotland
Glacier
Details

Type

snowpack

Coordinates

51.297651, -116.087519

Avalanche Information

Skier accidental size 1 down 50cm on Dec 7th surface hoar. We dug a pit knew the instability was present, and was also propagating. See snow pack for results. Skier triggered the storm/ persistent slab avalanche from the trees lower down near the bottem of the feature near the lower crown. picture shown. Propagated up hill on an unsupported feature. Stopped directly on benched terrain below. These features are small and only capable of producing small avalanches. this was expected today but hadn't actually happened until our last run. It wasn't intentional but It wasn't surprising and good travel habits, one at a time, safe zones is key. My second day out seeing this layer reactive. Seems to be my main concern over the Nov 5th atm. The Dec 7th is reactive to skier traffic. And very touchy in some areas. Has the potential to go very big given the right terrain features.

Snowpack

Got one good whomf whiched knocked all the surface snow above the hoar on unsupported pillow features off. Dug down found the Nov 5th crust 105cm down and the Dec 7th sh layer down 50. Ectp 13 down 50 on Dec 7th sh 3-6mm RP Ctm20 down 50 on Dec 7th sh 3-6mm RP (nov 5th) dtn Had a skier accidental size 1 on this layer. See avalanche tab and photos. Temp at 10am and 3pm were - 5. Winds were light from the west received a total of 2cm over the day.