Avalanche: Uintas 2/28/2010

Observer Name:

Ted Scroggin

Observation Date:

03/02/2010

Occurrence Date:

02/28/2010

Occurrence Time:

Unknown

Region:

Uintas

Location Name:

Super Bowl/Moffit Basin

Location

40° 50' 17.628" N, 111° 0' 49.5216" W

Avalanche Characteristics

Elevation:

10500'

Aspect:

Northeast

Slope Angle:

Trigger:

Snowmobiler

Trigger: additional info:

Unintentionally Triggered

Avalanche Type:

Hard Slab

Weak Layer:

Surface Hoar

Depth (avg):

12"

Width:

100'

Vertical:

150'

General Comments

I lumped together 4 separate slides in the Super Bowl that are all on northeast aspects, above 10,000', failed on surface hoar, appeared to be snowmobile triggered and are at least 1-2 days old.

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General Comments 4

The buried surface hoar was easily observed on the flank of this slide in Super Bowl.

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