Observer Name
A smith
Observation Date
Wednesday, January 1, 2020
Avalanche Date
Wednesday, January 1, 2020
Region
Salt Lake » Big Cottonwood Canyon » Mill D North » Butler Fork » Reynolds Peak
Location Name or Route
Renoylds bowl
Elevation
9,500'
Aspect
Southeast
Trigger
Skier
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Avalanche Problem
Wind Drifted Snow
Weak Layer
New Snow/Old Snow Interface
Depth
8"
Width
50'
Vertical
10'
Caught
1
Carried
1
Comments
Reynolds bowl middle sluffed about 8 inch by 60 feet wide from wind loading. Just under the cornice. Plenty of tracks from the previous days but the 2-3 inches of snow was drifted by winds over the peak and created a soft slab and that ripped down to yesterday's snow
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