South Hector touchy slabs
Avalanchemirkoarcais · Feb 28, 2021 · East Side 93N
Avalanche
- Run Length
- 30
- Slab Width
- 15
- Trigger Type
- skier
- Wind Exposure
- crossLoadedSlope
- Avalanche Size
- 1
- Slab Thickness
- 60
- Trigger Sub Type
- accidental
- Start Zone Aspect
- SE
- Vegetation Cover
- sparseTrees
- Avalanche Character
- windSlab
- Number Of Avalanches
- 1
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2400
- Avalanche Observation
- 12hrsAgo
- Weak Layer Crystal Type
- facets
- Start Zone Elevation Band
- tln
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2021-02-28T09:00:00
Touchy conditions on South Hector. recent snow + recent wind + sitting on top of faceted snow. Experienced Shooting cracks on the way up. We found windslabs to be easy to trigger. We avoided steep and unsupported features for this obvious reasons, but still managed to trigger some small windslabs at treeline. All these observations suggested for conservative choices