Simpson Area

Quick report

Weather

warm, sunny

Ride Type

openTrees, mellowSlopes

Riding Quality

good

Snow Conditions

heavy

Avalanche Conditions

avalancheConditionTemp, avalancheConditionSound, avalancheConditionSlab

At approx 12:30 while skinning up, ~1950m on a east facing slope, we remote triggered approx 150m away a size 1 (photo 1) on the adjacent south east slope. the slide propagated ~30m across, ran slowly ~50m down with a crown ~30cm down. Observed shooting cracks around the first person trail breaking. Quick hand shear test on the east slope showed new snow poorly bonded ~30cm down on a old temperature crust. Decided to turn around at this point, en route down noticed two more possibly remote triggered, one same aspect similar size (photo 2) the second on the east aspect in the sun (photo 3), size 1.5-2 with crown approx ~200m across. Day started out at -7, definitely rapid warming, the sun felt very warm and above 0

Avalanche

Trigger Type

skier

Avalanche Size

1.5

Trigger Sub Type

remote

Start Zone Aspect

SE

Start Zone Incline

33

Crust Near Weak Layer

1

Number Of Avalanches

2-5

Start Zone Elevation

1950

Avalanche Observation

12hrsAgo

Start Zone Elevation Band

tln

Avalanche Occurrence Datetime

2024-03-29T18:30:00.000Z