Avalanche: Bountiful Peak

Observer Name
Staples/Osbourne/Deutschlander
Observation Date
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Avalanche Date
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Region
Ogden » Farmington Canyon » Bountiful Peak
Location Name or Route
Bountiful Peak
Elevation
9,000'
Aspect
Northeast
Trigger
Natural
Trigger: additional info
Cornice Triggered
Avalanche Type
Soft Slab
Avalanche Problem
Wind Drifted Snow
Weak Layer
Graupel
Depth
18"
Width
200'
Comments
This one was more interesting. I think it was just related to heavy wind loading; however, you can see it initialy broke under the cornice. But then you can see how it appears to have broken a little deeper lower on the slope. It may have stepped down onto a buried graupel layer. See second photo. Moving ahead, everywhere we checked, that graupel was very well bonded and would only break in our stability tests after a lof of force. It would not propagate a crack across the column.
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