Cirque Forepeak Avalanche Activity

Quick report

Weather

cloudy

Ride Type

mellowSlopes, openTrees

Stayed Away

steepSlopes, convexSlopes, alpineSlopes

Riding Quality

ok

Snow Conditions

powder, windAffected

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionSound

Avalanche

Trigger Type

skier

Avalanche Size

1.5

Trigger Sub Type

remote

Start Zone Aspect

SW

Trigger Distance

100

Vegetation Cover

openSlope

Start Zone Incline

35

Number Of Avalanches

2-5

Start Zone Elevation Band

alp

Avalanche Occurrence Datetime

2024-01-21T19:25:00.000Z

First photo is a small sz 0.5 natural slab avalanche we encountered at tree line. We stopped our ascent at tree line, but a solo skier passed us and kept going up into the alpine. When we got to our transition zone after a mellow run in the trees, we looked back up and saw two avalanches, probably sz 1-1.5, so we went back up the same way to see if the lone skier was OK. We could clearly see his skin track and his ski tracks coming down about 100m from the lookers left slide, so he safely skied away from this one. The slide evidently propagated to lookers right to trigger the second one. We didn’t head up to inspect but from afar the slope looked very thinly covered and it’s likely it slid on the basal facets.