locomotive mountain

Quick report

Riding Quality

good

Incident

Group Size

9

Group Activity

skiing

Number Involved

1

Number Fully Buried

0

Snow Depth Trigger Point

variable

Terrain Shape Trigger Point

convex

Number Partly Buried Able Breathing

1

snowboarder in a 35-40 deg chute east facing aspect in alpine. cut in below a convex roll and triggered a size 1-1.5 crown varied from around 2' to 6" at a guess looking from the bottom 20'-30' wide, slide carrying snowboarder 150 meters body was fully buried with head only just out of the snow with the help of there avy bag, without the avy bag would have been a completely buried.