Avalanche: Mill D North

Observer Name
Dave Kelly
Observation Date
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Avalanche Date
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Region
Salt Lake » Big Cottonwood Canyon » Mill D North
Location Name or Route
Mill D North
Elevation
8,200'
Aspect
Trigger
Unknown
Depth
Unknown
Width
Unknown
Vertical
Unknown
Comments

A signifigant amount of cracking and collapsing immediately off of the skin track. The majority of the cracking went from tree to tree, but on some of the more open slopes it was propagating a longer distance and cracking over 150 feet from where it was initiated. Pics 1-5 Eastern slopes of tom's hill. If you look closely you can see cracks above the crown. Pic 6 There was also an avalanche in one of the north facing gullies to the south of the Snow Cone skin track. It was hard to tell if it was natural or human triggered. It had occured on 1/21/12 as there was snow filling in portions of the bed surface. The slope had slid through some aspens and mature evergreens Pics 7-8

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