Near Hope Creek snowmobile area
AvalanchePatrick Garbutt ยท Jan 21, 2018
Quick report
- Riding Quality
- good
Constant shooting cracks and settlements along the cutbank in the 1500-1800m range, as we rode snowmobiles along the road. We triggered a size 2.5 a couple hundred meters across the valley and a couple of smaller slides in the same area. Details on avalanche tab. Decided to turn around. Too spicy.
Weather
- Avg Temp
- -8
- Wind Speed
- windSpeedModerate
- Sky Condition
- brokenClouds
- Temperature Trend
- steady
Avalanche
- Run Length
- 200
- Slab Width
- 50
- Trigger Type
- snowmobile
- Avalanche Size
- 2.5
- Slab Thickness
- 50
- Trigger Sub Type
- remote
- Trigger Distance
- 200
- Vegetation Cover
- sparseTrees
- Start Zone Incline
- 35
- Number Of Avalanches
- 2-5
- Start Zone Elevation
- 1800
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2018-01-21T10:13:00
Triggered a size 2-2.5 a couple hundred meters across the valley and upslope. Several other smaller slides were triggered remote as well. The entire cutbank along the road in the 1500-1800m range cracked and settled the whole way in. 50cm crown. Very touchy, turned around before crossing larger exposure. Assumed surface hoar from early or mid-Jan. Didn't stick around long enough to investigate further.