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Avalanche: Main Days 3/6/2010

Observer Name:

Tom Diegel

Observation Date:

03/06/2010

Occurrence Date:

03/06/2010

Occurrence Time:

Morning

Region:

Salt Lake
Big Cottonwood Canyon
Days Fork
Main Days

Location

40° 36' 18.0756" N, 111° 38' 37.2012" W

Avalanche Characteristics

Elevation:

10400'

Aspect:

Northeast

Trigger:

Unknown

Avalanche Type:

Soft Slab

Depth (avg):

12"

Width:

40'

Vertical:

200'

General Comments

we saw a slide that had an unknown trigger down into main days off the ridge, but it was just a surface without much punch/distance (probably 40' wide, dirty 1' crown, ran a couple hundred feet). there was some "hangfire" adjacent that we couldn't really control via ski cut so we didn't tease it. It was pretty breezy in the morn with a bit of transport, and I'd guess that this was a result of that.

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