Avalanche: Provo Canyon 1/6/2010

Observer Name: 
Nalli
Observation Date: 
01/06/2010
Occurrence Date: 
01/06/2010
Occurrence Time: 
3:00pm
Region: 
Provo
Provo Canyon
Location Name: 
Walker's Chute
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Location

40° 25' 37.164" N, 111° 43' 28.8876" W
Avalanche Characteristics
Elevation: 
7800'
Aspect: 
Northwest
Slope Angle: 
38
Trigger: 
Natural
Avalanche Type: 
Wet Loose
Weak Layer: 
Wet grains
Depth (avg): 
8"
Width: 
Unknown
Vertical: 
2500'
General Comments

Sometime around 2pm today the lower elevations in the Provo and American Fork mountains experienced a light rain event. Shortly after it

2010-01-06 WL- Walkers.jpg
General Comments 2

Another sizable slide in AF further up the road near Tibble Fork Reservoir.  This is the Tibble Towers Chute and it ran 1000' taking out some small trees and branches before ending in the creek.

2010-01-06 WL- Tibble Towers.jpg
General Comments 3

At the same time, similar slides were happening in Provo Canyon. This is a small path near Frasier Park called Snow Slide Jr. It ended at the Provo River bike path. A bit further down canyon near the popular ice  climbing areas a couple more slides like this came out of The Fang ice climb and also the next one to the west. Luckily, no one was on these climbs at the time.

2010-01-06 WL-SS Jr.jpg
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