Observer Name
DB
Observation Date
Sunday, January 15, 2023
Avalanche Date
Sunday, January 15, 2023
Region
Salt Lake » Mill Creek Canyon » west porter
Location Name or Route
Porter Fork
Elevation
9,500'
Aspect
East
Slope Angle
Unknown
Trigger
Natural
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Avalanche Problem
New Snow
Weak Layer
New Snow
Depth
12"
Width
600'
Vertical
600'
Comments
Pretty large assuming natural (no skintrack heading above where we dropped) new snow slide in the E facing bowl behind west porter. Probably triggered from high PI. Stopped in the trees to shoot a photo of my buddy and saw a lot of snow moving about 50ft to my left. Visibility was poor but from the debris piles looked like most of the bowl had slid, roughly 600ft from a caltopo measure. Triggered another 10 or so small soft slabs on our way out porter, just about every little roll or test slope would crack and get some snow moving. Roughly 8" of new snow above 8500' and was still dumping 1-2"/ hour on our exit at 1pm
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