Avalanche: Dark Ebony

Observer Name
Manship, Collette
Observation Date
Sunday, March 21, 2021
Avalanche Date
Sunday, March 21, 2021
Region
Salt Lake » Big Cottonwood Canyon » Mineral Fork » Dark Ebony
Location Name or Route
Mineral Fork
Elevation
10,300'
Aspect
Southwest
Trigger
Skier
Depth
8"
Width
100'
Comments
We skied a number of different drainages and aspects today, overall snow did not seem to have much of a slab and we had previously only noted dry loose slides. After putting in a ski cut across the slope I looked back and noticed this first slide that broke shallow, but wider than expected. This one ran a couple hundred feet. After skiing down further I was able to trigger more storm slab slides, some of which ran over 600ft and where breaking about 10" deep (it was hard to tell due to poor visibility at the time). This was the only place I noticed the snow sliding like this today. In this area, the snow had a slick bed surface, a steep angle, and not enough time to bond with the old snow.
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