UDOT PLANNED AVALANCHE CLOSURES!!

Avalanche: Park City Ridgeline

Observer Name
VanHouten
Observation Date
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Avalanche Date
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Region
Salt Lake » Park City Ridgeline
Location Name or Route
Blueslip Bowl
Elevation
9,300'
Aspect
Northeast
Slope Angle
37°
Trigger
Skier
Trigger: additional info
Intentionally Triggered
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Avalanche Problem
Wind Drifted Snow
Weak Layer
Facets
Depth
3'
Width
70'
Vertical
200'
Comments

Stepped onto the top of the bowl. Triggered what we expected, but did not expect to remotely pull out another pocket about 100 feet away. Second pocket was 1.5-2 feet deep but only about 50 feet wide. Both were freshly developed wind slabs with the new storm snow failing on the early season facets from the Nov 13-14 storm. Neither ran very far or very fast.

FORECASTER NOTE: This was within the Park City ski area which is closed and has the same snowpack that the backcountry does right now. Kobernik

Comments
The upper pocket is hard to see in the second photo. The debris is from the upper pocket. The more obvious pocket is the remotely triggered pocket.
Coordinates