Avalanche: road cuts 1/23/2010

Observer Name:

Doug Wewer

Observation Date:

01/23/2010

Occurrence Date:

01/23/2010

Occurrence Time:

Unknown

Region:

Ogden
Huntsville Valley
road cuts

Avalanche Characteristics

Elevation:

5800'

Trigger:

Unknown

Trigger: additional info:

Intentionally Triggered

Avalanche Type:

Soft Slab

Depth (avg):

10"

Width:

50'

Vertical:

10'

General Comments

Then went for a tour above Nordic Valley in the afternoon. Experienced numerous collapses just walki

General Comments 2

On our descent, took a whack at a road cut with my ski pole and triggered a shallow soft slab in the new snow (up to 10" deep), propagated up to 40 feet (see RoadCut_1 photo). Continued down the road cut and basically got the whole thing to slide, 10 to 50 feet at a time... (see RoadCut_2 photo).