Mallandaine Pass

Avalanche

AMcLeod · Dec 31, 2016 · St. Mary

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Quick report

Ride Type
openTrees
Stayed Away
sunnySlopes
Riding Quality
good
Snow Conditions
powder
Avalanche Conditions
avalancheConditionSlab

The 25cm storm slab was very poorly bonded in this area today. We ski cut two slides at about 1900m in an exposed area on this west facing slide path. The avalanches ran about 150m to a bench. Above this at 2200 there was approaching a metre and a half of weak 4F snow on the November crust.

Avalanche

Run Length
150
Trigger Type
skier
Avalanche Size
2
Slab Thickness
25
Trigger Sub Type
intentional
Start Zone Aspect
W
Avalanche Character
stormSlab
Number Of Avalanches
2-5
Start Zone Elevation
1900
Start Zone Elevation Band
btl
Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
2016-12-30T15:00:00