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Avalanche: Whites Bedground Rd 2/26/2010

Observer Name:

Dean Harris

Observation Date:

02/26/2010

Occurrence Date:

02/26/2010

Occurrence Time:

12:00pm

Region:

Logan
Left Hand Fork-Blacksmith Fork
Whites Bedground Rd

Location

41° 42' 41.1516" N, 111° 40' 39.7164" W

Avalanche Characteristics

Elevation:

8100'

Aspect:

East

Slope Angle:

Unknown

Trigger:

Snowboarder

Trigger: additional info:

Unintentionally Triggered

Avalanche Type:

Soft Slab

Weak Layer:

Surface Hoar

Depth (avg):

12"

Width:

70'

Width Range:

50' to

80'

Vertical:

50'

Vertical Range:

50' to

100'

General Comments

Dean rode over a roll on a fairly low angle slope near the Whites Bedground Road and triggered a small soft slab avalanche. He said he was surprised at how low angled the slope that he triggered was.... "This was completely a surprise after riding steeper and bigger hills all morning."

"The avalanche wasn't very big and probably wouldn't have been much of a problem even if it caught someone"....

General Comments 2

He said that around the about same time, "we saw tracks from someone riding right up under the cornice of Three Terraces" a huge upper elevation wind-drifted avalanche path on Providence Peak.

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