Skier triggered slab - partial burial
Incidentanonymous · Jan 19, 2023 · Tantalus
Quick report
- Riding Quality
- amazing
- Snow Conditions
- deepPowder
Snowpack
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
Avalanche
- Run Length
- 150
- Slab Width
- 30
- Trigger Type
- skier
- Avalanche Size
- 2
- Slab Thickness
- 38
- Trigger Sub Type
- accidental
- Start Zone Aspect
- SW
- Avalanche Character
- stormSlab
- Number Of Avalanches
- 1
- Start Zone Elevation
- 1850
- Avalanche Observation
- 12hrsAgo
- Start Zone Elevation Band
- alp
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2023-01-19T21:29:00.000Z
Skier navigating in thick whiteout, ski cut convexity at the entrance of chute with no reactivity, skied a few turns and triggered a slab lower down in concave terrain. Skier went for a 75 m ride and was buried to the chest and dug themselves out. SW aspect open rolling terrain at 1850m.
Incident
- Group Size
- 8
- Terrain Trap
- noTrap
- Group Activity
- skiing
- Number Involved
- 0
- Number Fully Buried
- 0
- Snow Depth Trigger Point
- average
- Terrain Shape Trigger Point
- convex
- Number Partly Buried Able Breathing
- 0
- Number Partly Buried Impaired Breathing
- 0