Avalanche: Garden City Canyon 1/21/2012

Observer Name:

Ward

Observation Date:

01/21/2012

Occurrence Date:

01/21/2012

Occurrence Time:

1:00pm

Region:

Logan
Bear Lake
Garden City Canyon

Location Name:

Garden City

Location

41° 58' 28.11" N, 111° 28' 59.6208" W

Avalanche Characteristics

Elevation:

8500'

Aspect:

Northeast

Slope Angle:

Trigger:

Skier

Avalanche Type:

Soft Slab

Weak Layer:

Depth Hoar

Depth (avg):

Width:

50'

Vertical:

90'

General Comments

While skinning on the Garden City Ridge, I heard a whoomphing and saw cracks shoot just below the ridgeline. I was 75 feet west of the main Garden City bowl. The terrain below me was between 28-30 degrees, so cracking and buckling was the only result. I followed the cracks and buckles along the ridgeline. About 600 feet from the initial cracking, I could see that I had sympathetically released a small soft slab on a 32 degree rollover about 100 feet off the ridge.

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