Toasty in the tantalus
Avalancheabbydell · Apr 16, 2021 · Tantalus
Quick report
- Weather
- warm, sunny
- Stayed Away
- sunnySlopes
- Riding Quality
- ok
- Snow Conditions
- wet, hard, crusty
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionTemp, avalancheConditionSlab
Avalanche
- Trigger Type
- natural
- Avalanche Size
- 2
- Trigger Sub Type
- remote
- Start Zone Aspect
- N, SE, S, SW, E, NE, NW
- Trigger Distance
- 45
- Vegetation Cover
- openSlope
- Avalanche Character
- wetSlab, corniceWithSlab, corniceOnly, looseWet
- Number Of Avalanches
- 11-50
- Start Zone Elevation Band
- alp
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2021-04-16T09:00:00
It stayed tropical in the tantalus and with out a solid freeze everything was popping. Cornice + rocks were setting of grumbly big wet slabs (size 1.5-2.5) and the sun triggers were getting point releases to pop all over the place. After 4 days of not being up there we lost 40cm of depth in the snowpack. Crevasses are starting to show big time. We skied triggers a remote and a saw many many naturals. It was spooky and we were done riding by 1030 am.