Avalanche: Bear River Range 1/20/2012

Observer Name: 
Eric Flygare
Observation Date: 
01/20/2012
Occurrence Date: 
01/20/2012
Occurrence Time: 
Unknown
Region: 
Logan
Bear River Range
Location Name: 
Goal Posts
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Location

41° 42' 33.426" N, 111° 44' 34.7028" W
Avalanche Characteristics
Elevation: 
Unknown
Aspect: 
North
Southwest
Northwest
Slope Angle: 
Unknown
Trigger: 
Natural
Avalanche Type: 
Hard Slab
Weak Layer: 
Facets
Depth (avg): 
unknown
Width: 
Unknown
Vertical: 
Unknown
General Comments

When we got home there was a break in the clouds and we got out the spotting scope to see what had been happening.  Both goalposts ran some time during the storm. The crown was partially buried by new snow but you could tell that both had run.  There were a ton of small slides above north Logan and Hyde park on west and northwest facing slopes.  The most significant of them was at the head of Hyde Park canyon where it looked like the slide was 600 to 800 feet wide and ran about 1000 feet on a west southwest slope.  I tried to get pictures but by the time I got the camera out the clouds had moved back in.  The crown didn't appear to be too deep but from 7 miles away it was hard to tell too much.

I forgot to mention that Amy spotted a nice sized avalanche off the west side of big baldy.  Not sure how big but I would guess it was 100 feet wide and ran 500 vert.  Sorry I didn't get any pictures.

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