Reactive Storm Slabs on Mt Strachan
Quick reportSteveSkis123 · Jan 9, 2024 · North Shore
Quick report
- Weather
- stormy, windy
- Ride Type
- convexSlopes, denseTrees, mellowSlopes, openTrees, steepSlopes
- Riding Quality
- amazing
- Snow Conditions
- powder, windAffected
- Avalanche Conditions
- avalancheConditionSlab, avalancheConditionSnow, avalancheConditionSound
Heavy snow and moderate to high SE winds with accumulations of 25cm by 5pm. Multiple SC avalanches failed on buried surface hoar from 12/7. Small loose dry avalanches were easy to trigger on all aspects
Avalanche
- Run Length
- 15
- Slab Width
- 20
- Trigger Type
- skier
- Wind Exposure
- crossLoadedSlope
- Avalanche Size
- 1
- Slab Thickness
- 20
- Trigger Sub Type
- intentional
- Start Zone Aspect
- S, SE, SW, W
- Vegetation Cover
- sparseTrees
- Start Zone Incline
- 28
- Avalanche Character
- looseDry, stormSlab
- Number Of Avalanches
- 6-10
- Start Zone Elevation
- 1400
- Runout Zone Elevation
- 1400
- Weak Layer Burial Date
- 2024-01-08
- Avalanche Observation
- 12hrsAgo
- Weak Layer Crystal Type
- stormSnow, surfaceHoar
- Start Zone Elevation Band
- btl, tln
- Avalanche Occurrence Datetime
- 2024-01-09T00:35:00.000Z
Multiple intentional ski cut avalanches up to size 1 the largest being about 20cm crown height with 15-20m wide crown. Ran onto flats of road at T-33. Storm snow on convex features and slopes over 30 degrees became very reactive by about 4/5pm and appeared to fall on buried surface hoar from Saturday night/Sunday morning.