Law & Order, Paddy Peak East
Avalancheaustinjamesneill · Mar 17, 2021 · Tutshi
Quick report
- Weather
- windy, warm
- Ride Type
- openTrees, alpineSlopes, convexSlopes, steepSlopes
- Riding Quality
- good
- Snow Conditions
- hard, deepPowder, powder, crusty
We rode one of the chutes on Paddy peak east or on google earth paddy N3. This bowl has very unique features prodiving lots of protection from north and south winds. Often leaving the two alpine bowls completly unwind affected. The bowl we rode is of the steeper variety and the lookers right bowl is much more mellow. Although still a pretty good 4000ft climb to reach the ridge. Although this line has seen a FA by someone else, they never choose to give it a name. We've decided to call it Law & Order.
Weather
- Avg Temp
- -2
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedStrong
- Blowing Snow
- light
- Sky Condition
- brokenClouds
- Wind Direction
- S
- New Snow24 Hours
- 10
- Precipitation Type
- none
Clouds were rolling in and out all day
Snowpack
- Depth
- 250
- Obs Type
- summary
- Site Aspect
- E
- Test Fracture
- sudden
- Site Elevation
- 1600
- Ski Penetration
- 30
- Test Initiation
- moderate
- Test Failure Depth
- 40
- Site Elevation Band
- alp
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- facets
Dug a pit at 1600m, tested the snowpack down 1m found a weak layer 40cm down failed on ECTP22
Avalanche
- Run Length
- 250
- Slab Width
- 15
- Trigger Type
- skier
- Wind Exposure
- noWindExposure
- Avalanche Size
- 1.5
- Slab Thickness
- 20
- Trigger Sub Type
- intentional
- Start Zone Aspect
- E
- Vegetation Cover
- openSlope
- Start Zone Incline
- 38
- Avalanche Character
- stormSlab
- Crust Near Weak Layer
- 1
- Number Of Avalanches
- 1
- Start Zone Elevation
- 1950
- Runout Zone Elevation
- 1600
- Avalanche Observation
- 12to24hrsAgo
- Weak Layer Crystal Type
- facets
- Start Zone Elevation Band
- alp
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2021-03-16T17:00:00
My partner dropped in the slope and ski cut the top portion of the chute. The top 20cm of storm snow was dislodged and slid the length of the chute pulling all loose snow with it. The avy ran aprox 1000ft. No one was caught or taken down during the incident.