Avalanche: Catchers Mit

Observer Name
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Observation Date
Friday, February 28, 2014
Avalanche Date
Friday, February 28, 2014
Region
Salt Lake » Big Cottonwood Canyon » Kessler Peak » Catchers Mit
Location Name or Route
East facing Kestler
Elevation
Unknown
Aspect
East
Slope Angle
Unknown
Trigger
Natural
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Avalanche Problem
New Snow
Weak Layer
Density Change
Depth
Unknown
Width
Unknown
Vertical
Unknown
Comments

Saw this fresh avalanche off the east face of Kestler down below the Catchers Mit on my exit out of Cardiff Fork this afternoon. Noted the debris pile from the summer road, made it with in about 60ft of the road. My thinking is that it started quite a ways above were the wind was loading the upper portion of the chute and pulled out on the density inversion in the new snow, then ran on the hard underlying bed surface. Photos.

Debris pile up close.

Bottom portion of the track.