Camp West Lite avy/McGill main chute

Quick report

Erik · Dec 10, 2021 · Little Yoho

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Quick report

Weather
cloudy
Ride Type
openTrees
Stayed Away
alpineSlopes
Riding Quality
Good
Snow Conditions
crusty, deepPowder, powder

Skied camp west lite down to about 1500m and then bumped back up and skiing the McGill main chute. Evidence of debris in both. We did intentially trigger a dry loose avy at the top of camp west lite through breaking off cornice/windlip. Skiing was good! Nice low density snow and relatively deep up high

Avalanche

We broke some cornices/windlips off at the top of camp west lite. The first 3 were about human body weight size and had little effect, a bit of sloughing. The last one was rather large, perhaps the size of a small car. This triggered a dry loose avalanche, probably size 1.5/2 that took some of the debris from the previous cornice breaks and ran for quite a while! It seemed to be the top 30-40 didn't appear to run on the December 1st crust. It was low density snow and the debris itself was quite soft. It occurred as expected and as the bulletin had predicted.