Avalanche: East Faces-Wellsville Range

Observer Name
Weed
Observation Date
Saturday, February 8, 2014
Avalanche Date
Saturday, February 8, 2014
Region
Logan » Little Bear » East Faces-Wellsville Range
Location Name or Route
Maple Bench-Old Logway Canyon
Elevation
Unknown
Aspect
East
Slope Angle
Unknown
Trigger
Natural
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Repeater
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Avalanche Problem
New Snow
Depth
Unknown
Width
Unknown
Vertical
2,500'
Comments

Large natural avalanches ran on the east side of the Wellsville Range above Mendon. I went up to Maple Bench and the bottom of Old Logway canyon to check em out. There was evidence of two avalanches running over 2500' down to Maple Bench, with debris from a smaller slide covered by less than an inch of fresh snow on top of debris from a larger one with 3 or 4 inches of snow on it. The first slide (likely from sometime in the evening of 2/7) ran close to the full length of the path and took out a number of big tooth maple and box elder trees in the runout fan....

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