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Avalanche: Mineral Fork

Observer Name
Sean T
Observation Date
Thursday, December 29, 2022
Avalanche Date
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
Region
Salt Lake » Mineral Fork
Location Name or Route
Mineral Fork
Aspect
Northeast
Trigger
Natural
Depth
15"
Width
150'
Comments
Beautiful day in the mountains up on georges bowl! Excellent riding conditions with deep right side up powder. Weather cleared enough to be able to see into upper BCC. Many pillowed slopes showing wind loading throughout upper BCC. A lot of point release shedding across the range. In Mineral, there were a few slabs that seem to have released during the last storm. The longer you looked at upper mineral, the more crowns seemed to be present. I counted 3-4 distinct crowns, all seemed to have failed in the storm snow, likely due to wind loading overloading the slope. Images of the two largest crowns are attached, one on Room of Doom (first picture) where most of the slope seemed to have released about mid slope, the other larger slide was on barrieto.
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