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AvalancheEvan Abrams · Feb 23, 2021 · Central Selkirk
Quick report
- Ride Type
- alpineSlopes, mellowSlopes
- Stayed Away
- steepSlopes, convexSlopes
- Riding Quality
- good
- Snow Conditions
- powder
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSound
We rode 30-32 degree east facing slope off of the back of Kokanee bowl. Then took the south east ridge back to Montana bowl. We skinned up the ridge then switched to boot packing to stay on the ridge and avoid skinning out into the south south east face. We remotely triggered an avalanche. Crown started 5 meters from the group.
Avalanche
- Run Length
- 600
- Slab Width
- 40
- Wind Exposure
- leeSlope
- Avalanche Size
- 3
- Slab Thickness
- 100
- Trigger Sub Type
- remote
- Start Zone Aspect
- SE
- Trigger Distance
- 5
- Vegetation Cover
- openSlope
- Avalanche Character
- stormSlab
- Number Of Avalanches
- 1
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2250
- Runout Zone Elevation
- 2050
- Start Zone Elevation Band
- alp
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2021-02-23T13:30:00
Crown closes to us on ridge was about 30cm quickly increasing to about 60cm then reaching approximately 100cm on fare side.