Remote trigger
Quick reportYukon Field Team · Jan 27, 2023 · Lake Louise
Quick report
- Weather
- sunny, warm
- Ride Type
- alpineSlopes, mellowSlopes
- Stayed Away
- convexSlopes, steepSlopes
- Riding Quality
- OK
- Snow Conditions
- crusty, hard, heavy, windAffected
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSlab
We had plans to travel up to the Taiya area today and first saw a large avalanche perhaps 12-24 hours old that came down out of the big kahuna area. Continuing up to the notch, while traveling in low angle terrain (less than 20°) we remote triggered a large avalanche on a slope 200m away (this is very far) in a sheltered area where new snow had built an 80 cm slab over some buried surface hoar (feathery crystals). We changed our plans and decided to give large north and north east aspects a wide berth especially in areas that looked loaded up with new snow by the wind.
Avalanche
First snowmobiler heading to the notch