Overlook Avalanche above Glacier Crest Trail
Quick reportcarlyvicjordan · Jan 28, 2024 · Little Yoho
Quick report
- Weather
- warm, foggy, wet
- Ride Type
- openTrees, mellowSlopes
- Stayed Away
- convexSlopes, steepSlopes, alpineSlopes
- Snow Conditions
- heavy, powder
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionTemp
Weather
- Avg Temp
- 1
- Max Temp
- 1
- Min Temp
- -1
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedCalm
- Blowing Snow
- none
- Rainfall Rate
- drizzle
- Sky Condition
- overcast
- New Snow24 Hours
- 10
- Storm Start Date
- 2024-01-28
- Storm Snow Amount
- 10
- Temperature Trend
- rising
- Precipitation Type
- mixedSnowRain
- Precipitation24 Hours
- 15
Snowpack
- Obs Type
- summary
- Site Aspect
- SW
- Ski Penetration
- 10
- Foot Penetration
- 50
Avalanche
- Trigger Type
- natural
- Wind Exposure
- windwardSlope
- Avalanche Size
- 2.5
- Start Zone Aspect
- SW
- Vegetation Cover
- sparseTrees
- Start Zone Incline
- 40
- Avalanche Character
- deepPersistentSlab
- Number Of Avalanches
- 2-5
- Runout Zone Elevation
- 1400
- Avalanche Observation
- 12hrsAgo
- Start Zone Elevation Band
- alp
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2024-01-28T18:30:00.000Z
We observed a natural size 2 deep slab, suspect December layer. A natural size 2 previously ran in the past 12 hours on the adjacent run, similar layer.