Avalanche Armageddon
Quick reportgilbert.pjb · Mar 16, 2024 · Spearhead
Quick report
- Weather
- sunny
- Ride Type
- mellowSlopes
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes, convexSlopes, cutBlocks, openTrees, steepSlopes, sunnySlopes
- Riding Quality
- ok
- Snow Conditions
- crusty, wet
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionTemp
Skinned from Flute to Oboe and back. surface snow had breakable crust on non-solar aspects and wet surface snow on solar aspects. from 10cm to 190cm snow was fluffy and unconsolidated.
Avalanche
- Trigger Type
- natural
- Avalanche Size
- 3
- Start Zone Aspect
- E, S, SE, SW
- Vegetation Cover
- openSlope
- Avalanche Character
- persistentSlab
- Crust Near Weak Layer
- 1
- Number Of Avalanches
- 11-50
- Weak Layer Burial Date
- 2024-02-03
- Avalanche Observation
- 12to24hrsAgo
- Weak Layer Crystal Type
- facets
- Start Zone Elevation Band
- alp
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2024-03-15T20:01:00.000Z
the entire south aspects of the spearhead range had multiple slides on it today, all seemed to be running on the Feb facet layer with 1-2m crowns. see photos for more details