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Date: 2012-04-01
Location: North Aspect off South Mt Strachan
Location Description
Province: BC
Mountain Range: other
Coordinates: 0 0
Elevation: -
Activity: Out-of-bounds Skiing
Involvement: -
Injury: -
Fatality: 0
Description: Had been skiing the same aspect for much of the morning NNW, and had found quite good stability. Once cloud cover dissipated however, the slight temperature increase seemed to affect the weight of the snow on the noted hoar frost layer (north aspects) and was quite prone to stepping down through both storm cycle deposits to the above noted hoar layer. Terrain was not directly affected by solar radiation. Triggered on a slight convex roll and on an approximately 40 degree slope with significant pungie tree coverage.

Date/time	Size	Type	Trigger	Elevation	Aspect	Slab width	Slab thickness
2012-04-01 14:30	1	S	S	-	U	7m	25cm

Present Temp	Max Temp	Min Temp	24hr Trend	Wind Speed	Wind Direction	Sky Condition	Precipitation Type & Intensity
-	-	-	Rising	C	U	SCT	None

Weather comment: Cleared through the morning to scattered skies by approx 1230.

Snowpack	24hr Snow	Storm Snow	Storm Date
-	10	25	-

Snowpack comment: Two distinct layers existed and were not well bonded, hence the step down through to hoar layer.

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