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Cloudburst Wet Slab

Published
Feb 26th, 2017 4:00 PM
will.stoop
Brandywine
Details

Type

incident

Coordinates

49.940940, -123.237660

Incident

Size 2 wet slab with 12in. crown x ~100ft. wide x ~500ft. run length on W/NW open slope below cliff face funnelling into short gully into open bowl. Distinct, thick, ice layer below 20-30cm unsettled snow. Sunny all day; rapidly warming weak surface layer. Observed multiple self-triggered micro-cracks in afternoon on wind slabs and sun exposed slopes indicating sliding weak layer below.