Mushroom People / Asulkan Trail
IncidentMiles Ladd · Jan 8, 2018 · Glacier
Quick report
- Riding Quality
- amazing
Weather
- Avg Temp
- -1
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedCalm
- Sky Condition
- overcast
- Temperature Trend
- rising
- Precipitation Type
- snow
Snowpack
- Obs Type
- summary
- Test Fracture
- sudden
- Site Elevation
- 1300
- Test Initiation
- none
- Cracking Observed
- 1
Avalanche
- Trigger Type
- skier
- Avalanche Size
- 2
- Trigger Sub Type
- accidental
- Vegetation Cover
- sparseTrees
- Crust Near Weak Layer
- 1
- Number Of Avalanches
- 2-5
- Start Zone Elevation
- 1350
- Runout Zone Elevation
- 1300
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2018-01-08T09:49:00
Touring up Asulkan pass. Traversing through trees just north of Mushroom People. Partial Burial. Shooting crack was noticed and person shuffled weight causing fracture around a large boulder. There were other parties in the area that experience skier triggered slides and a burial.
Incident
- Group Size
- 6
- Group Activity
- skiing
- Number Involved
- 1
- Snow Depth Trigger Point
- deep
- Terrain Shape Trigger Point
- planar
- Number Partly Buried Able Breathing
- 1