Avalanche: Farmington Canyon 12/30/2010

Observer Name: 
Kyle Wells
Observation Date: 
01/03/2011
Occurrence Date: 
12/30/2010
Occurrence Time: 
Unknown
Region: 
Salt Lake
Farmington Canyon
Location Name: 
Farmington Canyon
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Location

40° 59' 2.796" N, 111° 47' 54.312" W
Avalanche Characteristics
Elevation: 
7600'
and below
Aspect: 
North
Northeast
Slope Angle: 
Unknown
Trigger: 
Unknown
Avalanche Type: 
Soft Slab
Depth (avg): 
unknown
Width: 
Unknown
Vertical: 
Unknown
General Comments

Noticed this slide today while hiking along the upper francis peak road. New years day I noticed some debri in the trees just below this slide, but it was until today I hiked into an area I could view the slide. Looks to be from either newyears eve or possibly the day before, There are skier tracks coming in from the skiers right of the slide, Possibly triggered the slide. There are also what appeared to be snowshoe tracks heading up the slide path from earlier today. I skiied a few runs on the south southwest aspects just across from this slide, Snow felt very stable, and was still really good snow, besides a little sun crust near the snow removal shack. Overall a really good day. Ran into some other riders who had riden a northerly aspect just west of this slide area, reported it to be "sketchy" they road the ridge line down and headed to the south southwest aspects I would later run into them on.

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