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Disease ridge

Published
Mar 18th, 2017 1:00 PM
plabrosse
South Coast Inland
Details

Type

avalanche

Coordinates

50.066950, -122.867950

Quick Observation

Sun came out late afternoon creating moist snow to 1750m. Steep convexities ski cut with 1.5 Sc result. steep convexities in open trees had sluff running on the crust easily with some shooting cracks in isolated wind loaded areas. Wind transport was very significant, breaking trail on every lap with winds from the SW.

Avalanche Information

Ski cut a stmslab in steep, heavily windloaded convexity.Failure initiated immediately below ridgetop and Propagation went both sides of a rock outcrop. Slide did not run down to the flats, stopped 3/4 of the way down moderately steep slope (~30 degrees). Failure appeared to be on the march 15th crust.