Avalanche: Gad Valley 11/12/2011

Observer Name:

dmar

Observation Date:

11/13/2011

Occurrence Date:

11/12/2011

Occurrence Time:

2:30pm

Region:

Gad Valley
Little Cottonwood Canyon
Salt Lake

Location Name:

Snowbird, Election

Location

40° 33' 39.042" N, 111° 39' 43.7904" W

Avalanche Characteristics

Elevation:

9200'

Aspect:

Northeast

East

Slope Angle:

Trigger:

Snowboarder

Trigger: additional info:

Intentionally Triggered

Avalanche Type:

Hard Slab

Weak Layer:

Facets

Depth (avg):

12"

Width:

100'

Vertical:

200'

General Comments

lots of collapsing heading up towards gad 2 chair at the bird...so I walked towards the edge here to see if I could get anything to release and sure enough...location right shoulder off Election...NE-E aspects apx 100+ft wide running about 200ft, slope angle apx 32

triggered from where they are standing below [img]http://farm7.static.flickr.com

new dense snow sitting on a crust with facets underneath...new snow looks to be enough to collapse the crust layer and running on facets underneath and some spots to the ground

slide 2; a little further up Election...again walking along the shoulder to see if we can get things to pop....this one was triggered from where the picture was taken about 40ft away, small pocket but a little deeper

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