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Avalanche: Lambs 3/5/2010

Observer Name:

Grant Helgeson

Observation Date:

03/05/2010

Occurrence Date:

03/05/2010

Occurrence Time:

9:00am

Region:

Lambs
Salt Lake

Location

40° 42' 9.2016" N, 111° 39' 33.948" W

Avalanche Characteristics

Elevation:

9000'

Aspect:

Northwest

Slope Angle:

Trigger:

Skier

Trigger: additional info:

Unintentionally Triggered

Avalanche Type:

Soft Slab

Weak Layer:

Facets

Depth (avg):

Width:

70'

Vertical:

125'

General Comments

Super Interesting avalanche. The slide did NOT gouge down to the buried surface hoar layer. It failed on a NSF/Surface hoar combo layer about 3" above the February 8 - 10th layers. Fascinating from a snow geek perspective.

General Comments 2

NOTE: In the video I mis-label the Feb 8 - 10th Surface Hoar/NSF layer as a Jan. 28th layer.

Video 2:

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