Hot n spicy
Quick reportnick.bollinger1995 · Mar 3, 2026 · Shames
Quick report
- Weather
- cloudy
- Ride Type
- denseTrees, mellowSlopes, openTrees, steepSlopes
- Stayed Away
- alpineSlopes, convexSlopes
- Riding Quality
- good
- Snow Conditions
- heavy, powder, wet, windAffected
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionTemp
Skied laps in Zymacord trees today till late. Wind south mod at ridge top. Freezing level around 1000m at height of day. Snow quality good down to 800m . Snow was mostly hot pow. Fast and heavy. 20cm of new snow overnight and another 10-15cm throughout the day. Audibles off south side on Sleeping beauty most of day and some naturals heard closer to the zymbuck area but not seen due to fog later in the afternoon. Ski triggered a size 2 on the lee side of one of the bigger drainages at 1200m and a size 1 wet loose in steep terrain down around 1000m.
Avalanche
- Run Length
- 500
- Slab Width
- 50
- Trigger Type
- skier
- Wind Exposure
- leeSlope
- Avalanche Size
- 2
- Slab Thickness
- 27
- Trigger Sub Type
- intentional
- Start Zone Aspect
- NE
- Vegetation Cover
- sparseTrees
- Start Zone Incline
- 34
- Avalanche Character
- stormSlab
- Number Of Avalanches
- 1
- Start Zone Elevation
- 1200
- Runout Zone Elevation
- 850
- Avalanche Observation
- 12hrsAgo
- Weak Layer Crystal Type
- stormSnow
- Start Zone Elevation Band
- tln
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2026-03-02T20:00:00.000Z
Ski cut a lee slope in one of the main drainages. Start zone was at the apex of convexity under ski. At the cut the slab thickness was 15cm but along the fracture line was up to 40 cm. Propagated along wind lip and with the edge of the drainage. Slab was soft but heavy and ran quick cracking small trees on the way down and ending up in the meadow at the bench around 800m.