Avalanche: Slide Canyon 3/17/2010

Observer Name:

Patterson

Observation Date:

03/17/2010

Occurrence Date:

03/17/2010

Occurrence Time:

Unknown

Region:

Provo
Provo Canyon
Slide Canyon

Location Name:

Slide Canyon-low Shot 6 and 7

Location

40° 22' 1.0236" N, 111° 36' 50.4468" W

Avalanche Characteristics

Elevation:

9400'

Aspect:

Southeast

Slope Angle:

Unknown

Trigger:

Natural

Avalanche Type:

Wet Slab

Depth (avg):

unknown

Width:

Unknown

Vertical:

Unknown

General Comments

Lot's of wet activity today. I noticed these WS-N-R2-D3-O in Slide Canyon around 1500 as I was leaving Provo Canyon. Likely that they occurred today, sometime between 1100 and 1500. Most wet activity observed today was WL-Naturals, some quite large. Saw one other wet slab that was triggered by a wet loose off of a high cliff band in East Chute of Elk Point (see Nalli's obs). These were the largest wet slabs that I observed today.

General Comments 2

Close up of the slab low in shot 6. Appears that there was a step down in the bed surface on the lookers left side.

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