Video Bowl
AvalancheZach Birnie · Nov 19, 2016 · Glacier
Quick report
- Weather
- cold, sunny
- Ride Type
- denseTrees, openTrees
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes
- Riding Quality
- good
- Snow Conditions
- powder
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionSnow
Weather
- Avg Temp
- -7
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedCalm
- Blowing Snow
- none
- Sky Condition
- brokenClouds
- Temperature Trend
- steady
- Precipitation Type
- snow
Snowpack
- Obs Type
- summary
- Site Aspect
- SW
- Test Fracture
- sudden
- Test Initiation
- moderate
- Site Elevation Band
- alp
- Surface Conditions
- newSnow
- Test Failure Layer Crystal Types
- crust
Sudden Collapse @26cm depth on CTM 12 SP New Snow on Oct.28 rain crust.
Avalanche
- Trigger Type
- natural
- Avalanche Size
- 2
- Trigger Sub Type
- accidental
- Start Zone Aspect
- SW
- Avalanche Character
- corniceWithSlab
- Number Of Avalanches
- 1
- Start Zone Elevation Band
- alp
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2016-11-18T10:30:00
Witnessed a size 2 avalanche off the shoulder of video peak at 10:30 am runout zone was roughly 800m and occured due to a sun exposed cornice cornice that had fallen.