12 mile

Avalanche

aagies · Jan 19, 2022 · North Columbia

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Avalanche

Initiated right at ridge top on a heavily wind loaded slope with a 1m ish crown (quite far away, hard to say exactly but it was deep). May have stepped down to Dec crust/facet layer mid track (see red arrow right side of pic). Walked over the debris pile which had some wind affect and even a bit of fresh graupel on it so estimated it to have run maybe late on the 17th. Also saw a massive cornice failure- quite far away, hard to see in the pic but it was over 60m wide and probably 4m thick. Never got to a spot to see the debris pile, but it was huge.

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