Avalanche: Superior 3/31/2011

Observer Name:

steve

Observation Date:

03/31/2011

Occurrence Date:

03/31/2011

Occurrence Time:

Morning

Region:

Salt Lake
Little Cottonwood Canyon
Superior

Location Name:

suicide chute

Location

40° 35' 21.5484" N, 111° 40' 13.4508" W

Avalanche Characteristics

Elevation:

Unknown

Aspect:

Southeast

Slope Angle:

Trigger:

Skier

Avalanche Type:

Wet Slab

Weak Layer:

New Snow

Depth (avg):

Width:

80'

Vertical:

800'

General Comments

We dug hand pits and felt a frozen layer 4 to 5 inches down. We felt a little unsure about our skin up and as we got higher we saw a cracking of our skin track.It became more apparent the higher we went that it might break off the top 5 inch slab. At this point we felt it was time to stop and go no higher. Put skis on and did a ski cut to release the snow. It broke out about 80 feet wide and ran maybe 800 feet down. only the new super dense 5 inches moved. After the ski cut we skied the snow that just slid to the bottom.

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