Hero's Area
Quick reportdapadeanu · Feb 2, 2025 · Spray - KLakes
Quick report
- Weather
- cold
- Ride Type
- denseTrees, openTrees
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes
- Riding Quality
- ok
- Snow Conditions
- deepPowder
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionSound
Skied the trees on the south and north sides in the drainage up to Hero's knob. Lots of fresh snow plus facets made the uptracking tiring, and low coverage made the tree skiing tricky. Even on 125 wide skis, the weak snowpack and 30+cm of powder gave knee high ski penetration, resulting in slow going on the downhill. The new snow has not bonded well, especially on solar aspects. As soon as we went above treeline, a member of our remote triggered a size 1 avalanche and we chose to turn around. We witnessed very little evidence of sliding on the typical Heros knob approach, so all that new snow is waiting for a triggered release.
Avalanche
- Run Length
- 15
- Slab Width
- 10
- Trigger Type
- skier
- Avalanche Size
- 1
- Slab Thickness
- 40
- Trigger Sub Type
- remote
- Start Zone Aspect
- NW
- Avalanche Character
- stormSlab
- Number Of Avalanches
- 1
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2200
- Avalanche Observation
- 12hrsAgo
- Start Zone Elevation Band
- tln
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2025-02-02T19:00:00.000Z
Remote triggered from treeline to an open slope. Low speed but deep with lots of snow volume.