Avalanche: Murdock Peak 4/22/2011

Observer Name: 
Mike
Observation Date: 
04/22/2011
Occurrence Date: 
04/22/2011
Occurrence Time: 
1:00pm
Region: 
Salt Lake
Park City Ridgeline
Murdock Peak
Location Name: 
100 Turns east of Murdock Peak
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Location

40° 41' 48.4008" N, 111° 35' 28.41" W
Avalanche Characteristics
Elevation: 
8500'
Aspect: 
Southeast
Slope Angle: 
35
Trigger: 
Skier
Avalanche Type: 
Wet Slab
Weak Layer: 
New Snow/Old Snow Interface
Depth (avg): 
8"
Width: 
30'
Vertical: 
250'
Snow Profile
Snow Profile Comments: 

Two inches of fresh on top of saturated layer that was frozen earlier in the morning on the skin up.

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General Comments

Skiing down SE exposure with a couple inches of new snow on supportable base until I cut across steepest part of slope near scrub oaks and rocks. The base on steeper more easterly aspect was more saturated and a wet slide fractured right below me. I was able to ski across the slope and stop on top of a group of scrub oaks and watch the slide gain momentum and widen. The first point of fracture was about six inches deep and twelve feet wide it widen to about thirty feet, ran 250 feet and had a debris pile at the bottom three to four feet deep.

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