Mount field summit descent

Incident

Group Size

20

Terrain Trap

slopeTransitionOrBench

Group Activity

skiing

Number Injured

0

Number Involved

1

Number Caught Only

1

Number Fully Buried

0

Snow Depth Trigger Point

deep

Terrain Shape Trigger Point

convex

Number Partly Buried Able Breathing

0

Number Partly Buried Impaired Breathing

0

Counted 20 or so people on the way up to the summit of Mount field. On the descent from the summit there were two small skier triggered slab avalanches. No apparent wind effect on the pitch down from the summit. Both start zones were on the convex roll skiers right of the main Mount field descent line. There were no burials or trauma and the majority of the skiers were able to descend the more supported slope without incident.