Avalanche: Turnagain

Location: Tincan (Hippy Bowl)

Date:

December 21, 2015 3:00pm

Observer:

Anonymous

Route & General Observations

Skinning up Tincan Common, we noticed a skier triggered avalanche on our second lap up. We put our beacons on search to see if we picked up a signal and toured a little closer to the debris pile since we saw a few solo skiers out. We found nothing definitive and didn’t witness the avalanche occur and the area didn’t look very safe so we didn’t stick around long.

Contact, Location & General Observations

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Forecaster Comments

Note: This is "Hippy Bowl lookers left of Tin Can Common. Huge thanks to this observer for taking the time to do a signal search!

Avalanche Details

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Trigger	Natural	Remote Trigger	0
Avalanche Type	0	Aspect	Unknown
Elevation	unknown	Slope Angle	unknown
Crown Depth	unknown	Width	unknown
Vertical Run	unknown

Red Flags

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Obvious signs of instability

Recent Avalanches?	Yes
Collapsing (Whumphing)?	No
Cracking (Shooting cracks)?	No

Weather & Snow Characteristics

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Weather

Sunny, light wind

Snow surface

New snow, surface hoar

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Briefly scanned the edge of the debris pile to check for a signal

Location

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