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Incident Details
- Date
- 2012-03-02
- Location
- Fernie
- Location Description
- Skiing down from Mongolia ridge into Mongolia Bowl.
- Province
- BC
- Mountain Range
- Rocky Mountains
- Coordinates
- 0 0
- Elevation
- -
- Activity
- Out-of-bounds Skiing
- Involvement
- 1
- Injury
- 0
- Fatality
- 0
- Description
- First person skied first and saw no signs of avalanche except some loose snow, and stopped approxemately 150 m down. Second person triggered a slab almost at the top, and got caught. He managed to hold on to a tree, got partially buried and got out of the snow himself. First person didn't get caught but started searching for second person, until second and third person appeared above the first person. Fourth person skied another line.
| Date/time |
Size |
Type |
Trigger |
Elevation |
Aspect |
Slab width |
Slab thickness |
| 2012-03-02 15:00 |
2 |
U |
S |
- |
U |
20m |
70cm |
| Present Temp |
Max Temp |
Min Temp |
24hr Trend |
Wind Speed |
Wind Direction |
Sky Condition |
Precipitation Type & Intensity |
| - |
- |
- |
U |
M |
W |
U |
Light Snow |
- Weather comment
| Snowpack |
24hr Snow |
Storm Snow |
Storm Date |
| - |
10 |
100 |
- |
- Snowpack comment
| Document Date |
Title |
Source |
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