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Avalanche: Snake Creek

Observer Name
Trent Meisenheimer
Observation Date
Friday, January 31, 2014
Avalanche Date
Friday, January 31, 2014
Region
Salt Lake » Snake Creek
Location Name or Route
Snake Creek Canyon
Elevation
Unknown
Aspect
Southeast
Slope Angle
39°
Trigger
Snowmobiler
Trigger: additional info
Unintentionally Triggered
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Avalanche Problem
New Snow
Weak Layer
New Snow/Old Snow Interface
Depth
10"
Width
100'
Vertical
100'
Comments

Sorry for not getting a picture, it was dark on my way back to Brighton and it didn't show up on the camera. Looks like a snowmobiler was sidehilling when a steep convex roll avalanched.

It looked to me (total speculation as I did not look at it up close) that it ran on an old sun crust. It was a small avalanche but had a decent debris pile that could of knocked you over or perhaps rolled you a time or two.

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