Avalanche: Naomi Trail 1/9/2010

Sat, 01/09/2010 - 6:56pm

Submitted by Toby

Observer Name:

Jeremy Jenson

Observation Date:

01/09/2010

Occurrence Date:

01/09/2010

Occurrence Time:

Morning

Region:

Naomi Trail
Tony Grove
Logan River
Logan

Location

41° 54' 28.7784" N, 111° 39' 55.9944" W

Avalanche Characteristics

Elevation:

8700'

Aspect:

East

Southeast

and steeper

Slope Angle:

Trigger:

Snowmobiler

Trigger: additional info:

Unintentionally Triggered

Avalanche Type:

Hard Slab

Weak Layer:

Facets

Depth (avg):

Width:

Unknown

Width Range:

90' to

150'

Vertical:

Unknown

Vertical Range:

100' to

150'

People Involved

Caught:

Carried:

General Comments

Although this avalanche wasn't reported by the triggering party, it does appear to be a near miss... Tracks leading into the debris pile and evidence of a sled excavation show that this easily could have been a bad scene..

"Hard slab. 1-3 feet deep most likely snowmobile triggered."

General Comments 2

"Kind of near the approach to the southwest facing side of Magog."

General Comments 3

"I poked around for a minute because there was snowmobile tracks going right into the debris pile but it looks like nobody was buried."

Here's a first hand report of the same avalanche, I think: "Icy slab with ice underneath. climbing up a south facing chute on my snowmobile went to turn out and gave way it was pretty steep.. and it shot me off my snowmobile about 30 feet before I hit the ground and snowmobile rolled about 5 times. The slabs where about 2 feet thick and 2 to 3 feet wide.. the whole thing was about 25 feet wide and 100 feet long. I was not buried but my sled was."

I got in one last year under Naomi peak and sent in photos.. to me avalanches are getting more and more common..

General Comments 4

I'm glad we all didn't have to get out the rescue gear for real...Apparently the snow is still touchy, and upper elevation terrain mostly still untested by riders...

Toby

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