Observer Name
Woody
Observation Date
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Avalanche Date
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Region
Provo » American Fork » UFO Bowls
Location Name or Route
UFO Bowl 4 and 5
Elevation
9,600'
Aspect
Northeast
Slope Angle
38°
Trigger
Snowmobiler
Trigger: additional info
Remotely Triggered
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Avalanche Problem
Persistent Weak Layer
Weak Layer
Facets
Depth
2.5'
Width
1,500'
Vertical
500'
Comments
Several different crowns and sub bowls all ran at once with all of them across a 1500' area. Of note is we triggered the slopes from 1500' away in a safe meadow, and the fracture propagated up hill through an extremely thick band of scrub oak and aspen. Storm Slab was made up of HST24", HSTW4.2" plus some wind transport. Any time we stepped of the sleds we would sink up to our waist and collapse the entire meadow that we were in.
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