- Submitted by
- chrisgranter
- Observations date
- Tuesday, March 18, 2025 at 07:00
- Location
- 51.707998° N 116.463635° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
/-116.4636348107002,51.707997500388444,8,0,0/1026x200?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoiYXZhbGFuY2hlY2FuYWRhIiwiYSI6ImNqd2dvZmUxdzE4ZWg0M2tkaXpuNG95aTQifQ.pBLM87fE3sIxRJqJT7Bf7g "Skier Remote leading to multiple sympathetic releases")
Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Information
- Avalanche date/time
- Tuesday, March 18, 2025 at 18:30
- Number of avalanches in this report
- 6 to 10
- The size of avalanche
- 3
- Avalanche Character
- Deep persistent slab
- Persistent slab
- Trigger type
- Skier
- Trigger subtype
- Remote
- Start zone aspect
- NW
- S
- SW
- W
- Start zone elevation band
- Alpine
- Treeline
- Runout zone elevation
- 2,200m
- Weak layer burial date
- Thursday, January 30, 2025
- Weak layer crystal type
- Facets
- Crust near weak layer
- No
- Wind exposure
- Cross-loaded slope
- Vegetation cover
- Open slope
Comments
Skier remote size 2 triggered from 24 deg terrain resulted in 6 additional sympathetic persistent and deep persistent slab releases. 4 size 2-2.5. 2 size 3-3.5.
Weak layer failure traveled across alpine bowl feature covering a distance of ~800m.
