Sluffing on Louise Falls
Quick reportshea.goyette · Dec 22, 2023 · Lake Louise
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy, warm
- Climb Name
- Louise Falls
- Ice Quality
- good
Route climbed easy for the grade with plastic ice, good screws, and dry throughout with minimal dripping. Can no longer get around the back of the left pillar, so best to enter either from the centre or the right.
Weather
- Avg Temp
- 0
- Max Temp
- 0
- Min Temp
- -4
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedCalm
- Blowing Snow
- none
- Sky Condition
- brokenClouds
- New Snow24 Hours
- 0
- Storm Snow Amount
- 0
- Temperature Trend
- rising
- Precipitation Type
- none
- Precipitation24 Hours
- 0
Avalanche
- Trigger Type
- natural
- Avalanche Size
- 1
- Start Zone Aspect
- S
- Avalanche Character
- looseDry
- Number Of Avalanches
- 1
- Start Zone Elevation
- 1900
- Avalanche Observation
- 12to24hrsAgo
- Start Zone Elevation Band
- btl
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2023-12-22T17:45:00.000Z
Observed sluff (less than sz 1) down the middle of Louise Falls hitting the two followers on the second pitch, without harm. Trigger unknown, but suspect tree bomb. Isolated event.