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Observer Name
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Observation Date
Saturday, February 28, 2015
Avalanche Date
Saturday, February 28, 2015
Region
Salt Lake » Park City Ridgeline » Monitors » South Monitor Bowl
Location Name or Route
South Monitor Bowl
Elevation
9,900'
Aspect
North
Slope Angle
35°
Trigger
Skier
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Sympathetic Release
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Avalanche Problem
Wind Drifted Snow
Weak Layer
New Snow/Old Snow Interface
Depth
12"
Width
100'
Vertical
200'
Comments

Was walking the ridge of South Monitor after I had already done a run, knocked out a small wind slab skiers right of the peak which intern released a larger wind slab to the right of that. The crown varied from a foot at its deepest to around 5 inches where it tapered off on the flanks, ran a couple hundred feet down the slope until it got down out of the wind loading. A hard bed surface underneath aided in the length it ran. Photos, a few of the crown, one from the debris pile down slope because I dropped my camera and it didn't stop sliding until it hit the debris, and one of some of the debris.