Observer Name
Ted Scroggin
Observation Date
Friday, January 17, 2014
Avalanche Date
Monday, January 13, 2014
Region
Uintas » Bear River Ranger District » Whitney Basin
Location Name or Route
Double Hill-Whitney basin
Elevation
10,400'
Aspect
East
Slope Angle
36°
Trigger
Natural
Avalanche Type
Hard Slab
Avalanche Problem
Persistent Weak Layer
Weak Layer
Depth Hoar
Depth
4.5'
Width
700'
Vertical
800'
Comments
1. I would guess this avalanche on Double Hill ran sometime during last weekends storm and strong west winds.
2. This slide looked like it was packing some steam with the debris running almost to the flats and taking out some smaller evergreen trees.
3. As with many of these bigger slides, they are failing on weak faceted snow near the ground.
Comments
The conditions today were quite nice with many areas having some nice cold settled powder on shady slopes. The upper elevation sunny aspects even had nice snow with some lower elevations getting a little damp. The last storm snow has settled out nicely and I was finding nice supportable riding and turning conditions in the Whitney Basin.
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