Avalanche: Monitors 3/1/2010

Observer Name:

Mark White

Observation Date:

03/01/2010

Occurrence Date:

03/01/2010

Occurrence Time:

Unknown

Region:

Monitors
Park City Ridgeline
Salt Lake

Location

40° 38' 32.5752" N, 111° 34' 35.418" W

Avalanche Characteristics

Elevation:

9700'

Aspect:

Southeast

Trigger:

Natural

Avalanche Type:

Wet Loose

Depth (avg):

Width:

70'

Vertical:

600'

General Comments

Very warm, clear skies no wind, nice day in the hills good skiing.

Point release wet slides initiated in the south east facing rocks in west monitor, entrained a good amount of snow. ran about 600ft . 10200 elevation Point releases started in the east, south east facing rocks and entrained snow on NE aspects
no cracking or collapsing observed
none

Settled medium density snow, all off aspects got wet. Zipper crust on NE centerpunch of west monitor by 3:00 PM right of the top. Would expect high north to be the call for tommorrow

No pockets of considerable observed. Snow pack lacked buried.. surface hoar

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