Avalanche: Days Headwall 3/31/2010

Observer Name:

Kobernik

Observation Date:

03/31/2010

Occurrence Date:

03/31/2010

Occurrence Time:

4:30pm

Region:

Salt Lake
Big Cottonwood Canyon
Days Fork
Days Headwall

Location

40° 36' 2.0232" N, 111° 38' 4.1388" W

Avalanche Characteristics

Elevation:

10200'

Aspect:

North

Slope Angle:

Trigger:

Skier

Trigger: additional info:

Intentionally Triggered

Avalanche Type:

Soft Slab

Weak Layer:

New Snow

Depth (avg):

Width:

100'

Vertical:

800'

General Comments

My party intentionally triggered three different soft slabs along the Days Fork Headwall on Wednesday. Once initiated, they would propagate around terrain features producing fairly wide slides. One produced a sizable enough dust cloud to obscure full grown trees 800 feet below the ridge.

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