Avalanche: Cardiac Bowl 12/23/2011

Observer Name: 
concannon, may & bunce
Observation Date: 
12/23/2011
Occurrence Date: 
12/23/2011
Occurrence Time: 
1:00pm
Region: 
Salt Lake
Big Cottonwood Canyon
Cardiff Fork
Cardiac Bowl
Location Name: 
cardiac bowl
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Location

40° 35' 39.2028" N, 111° 39' 51.6672" W
Avalanche Characteristics
Elevation: 
10500'
and below
Aspect: 
Northeast
Trigger: 
Skier
Avalanche Type: 
Soft Slab
Weak Layer: 
Surface Hoar
Depth (avg): 
10"
Width: 
25'
Vertical: 
350'
General Comments

we skinned up cardiac bowl and through a thinner, new snow area in between two pockets of deeper, wind drifted snow. we got a collapse and some cracking near the top of the bowl. a pocket of wind drifted snow was triggered from below by a ski cut (crown at the cliff bands). 25 feet wide x 25 feet length pocket entrained snow and ran about 350 feet. failed at new snow/old snow interface. as shown in the photos, the slide ran and took out part of our skin track. no one caught or carried.

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